From the StarTribune —
DULUTH – A 70-year-old man from southern Minnesota was cited with misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct for punching a WCCO-TV journalist’s phone out of his hands near President Donald Trump’s rally last week, the city attorney said Thursday.
Duane Waldriff is from Lamberton (a five-hour drive from Duluth) and just happened to be driving by protestors near the Duluth airport a few hours’ ahead of Trump scheduled rally (and COVID spreading event) on Sep 30th.
The altercation was captured on cellphone video.
Dymanh Chhoun, a photojournalist covering the protest for WCCO, said he was on the phone with his station when he noticed the altercation happening. He didn’t have time to grab his camera gear, so he turned his phone sideways and started recording video.
WCCO aired the footage that Chhoun captured.
Lock him (all of them) up.