Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 1788486)

Hope the guy is caught and punished for the assault.

Originally Posted by Love2Swim (Post 1788562)

No one with signs or words should be the recipient of physical violence. No one. The person who attacked him was clearly a Villages thug. If you state some political view I don't agree with, or wave some sign around with words that do not meet my ethical standards, I have no right to punch you in the face. What normal people do when that happens is argue with the person, and if that gets them nowhere, they walk away.

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1788595)

Patently untrue, but explains...a lot. :oops:

Your "right" to be offended from legal signs or protests, does NOT extend to a "right" to physically assault...the one offending you. :ohdear:

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1788595)

Patently untrue, but explains...a lot. :oops:

Your "right" to be offended from legal signs or protests, does NOT extend to a "right" to physically assault...the one offending you. :ohdear:

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1788614)

Wondering the same.........I wonder if his injuries were self inflicted? I have not heard of anyone saying they saw this happen and it supposedly happened on a public venue. The picture shows three scratches straight down under his left ear and two bruises on his lips. The pictures are available on the online news.

I only say that because it appears to me by his very inflammatory signs and his aggressive stance that he is very interested in negative attention.

Originally Posted by Joanne19335 (Post 1788631)

I am Italian. Whoever said that IS ethnic profiling—just as people who assume we’re all in the Mafia.

Originally Posted by Love2Swim (Post 1788475)

Ed McGinty, who is known as an anti-Trump protester, was physically attacked by one of the Trump supporters who hijacked the Blue Lives Matter parade, near Sumter Landing today. His picture was on Facebook, and showed him to be battered and bleeding. McGinty was on his way to his daily protest, and from the sounds of it was not at the actual parade. The attack took place near the Sumter Landing Winn Dixie.

This is outrageous and is a black stain on Florida's Friendliest Hometown. Whether you like his views or not, he certainly has a right to protest, and to face physical violence in this manner is just frightening. He has also received threatening letters. What is the matter with these people?

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 1788625)

"Martin Luther King peacefully led protests about civil rights."

Except there was a major riot in just about every large city he visited about a week later. Bag man for the funding?????

"There were protests against the Vietnam War, mostly peaceful."

Kent State.

Again, the victim should NEVER have been assaulted, but in the real world one needs to be cognizant of the possible outcomes of a given action.