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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 01:28 PM Oct 2018

(Gop)Senator rips phone out of student's hand as he's asking question

Georgia Sen. David Perdue has stirred up a host of new questions after he appeared to dodge a college student's inquiry by ripping the student's cellphone out of his hand in the midst of a video recording.

The GOP senator was at Georgia Tech on Saturday to campaign for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp when he was approached by a member of the school's Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter and asked about tens of thousands of voter registrations that Kemp, as the current secretary of state, is refusing to process.

The student in the video can be heard starting to ask Perdue a question, but he's cut off before finishing.

"How can you endorse a candidate ..." he says, before Perdue takes the phone from his hand ending his question.

"You stole my property, you stole my property," he says.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/sen-david-perdue-rips-phone-students-hand-question/story?id=58499915

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(Gop)Senator rips phone out of student's hand as he's asking question (Original Post) JonLP24 Oct 2018 OP
Scumbag...nt SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #1
Question: Could the student have legally punched the senator in the mouth really hard in order to... uponit7771 Oct 2018 #2
Violence can't be the first option unblock Oct 2018 #3

uponit7771

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2. Question: Could the student have legally punched the senator in the mouth really hard in order to...
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 01:31 PM
Oct 2018

... protect his property?

Thx in advance

unblock

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3. Violence can't be the first option
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 01:42 PM
Oct 2018

Given that he apparently did get the phone back without violence, I'd say no, force would not have been legslly justified.

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