A city commissioner in Alabama hit a reporter—with an open hand, hard enough to draw blood—after the reporter asked him about allegations of voter fraud. Here’s a thing you shouldn’t do, in the event that someone asks you about voter fraud: shout “Get!” and then hit them with an open hand hard enough to draw blood.
WTVY reporter Ken Curtis approached City Commissioner Amos Newsome of Dothan, Alabama to ask if he was planning to resign. Newsome, a Democrat, has been facing calls from fellow city commissioners to resign after three of his campaign workers were convicted of voter fraud. Newsome, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, has not been charged with fraud himself.
Newsome’s response to Curtis’s questions was, some face-shoving, some yelling, and then, finally, some hitting, hard enough that Curtis staggered backwards: