WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia police said Thursday night that they had arrested a suspect in an assault on Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota.
Craig was assaulted in the elevator in her Washington apartment building around 7:10 a.m., police said, but the assailant fled when she defended herself.
Craig suffered bruises while escaping serious injury in the attack, which did not appear to be politically motivated, her chief of staff, Nick Coe, said in a statement.
The Metropolitan Police Department said it had arrested 26-year-old Kendrick Hamlin, of no fixed address, and charged him with simple assault.
MPD seeks the public's assistance in identifying a suspect responsible for a Simple Assault that occurred this morning in the 300 block of H Street, NE, involving a member of Congress.
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The attack followed an assault on the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in their San Francisco home in October by a man who told police his motive was political and that his intended target was the speaker.
Members of Congress have faced a sharp rise in threats since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. Capitol Police investigated nearly 10,000 threats to members last year, more than twice the number from four years earlier.
Craig won a third term in November in the suburban-to-rural 2nd District south of Minneapolis and St. Paul in one of the most expensive House races in the country, frustrating the GOP’s best hope of flipping a Minnesota seat in an election that gave Republicans a narrow House majority.
Coe said Craig is grateful for the quick response from the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department and has asked for privacy.
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how is that soft on crime working out for you liberal morons?
just blame trump for like you do everything else.
Don’t worry. They will find SOME way to blame whites for this…
I feel badly for the Congresswoman. I spent 3 years working in Southwest DC back in the early ’80s – crime is still out of control! The only time we saw police presence in the neighborhood where I worked when when the lady in the Cushman car came down to hand out parking tickets in the morning. People would get cars broken into, tape players and batteries stolen, their cops would never show up to take a report. At least back then, some of the VA congressmen that served on the DC Oversight Committee (Frank Wolf, Stan Parrish) would rake the city government over the coals about crime and mismanagement. I’m betting that there is nobody like that today!
I don’t. HER OWN POLICIES and that of her demon-spawn party, have led to this..
“As you assault into the valley of our laws, and law enforcers,
So the echo returns.”
When it comes to prosecuting the liberal made insane, democrat created and empowered American armies of darkness, socially community organized into headless, fatherless family structures, Soros Bought D.A.s must realize that a prosecuting and jailing “stitch in time saves nine”, but a D.A. glitch in NOT prosecuting crime saves nobody, not yours,,,, not mine.