Trump rally protester attacked in act of ‘senseless’ political violence, Ohio mayor says

At least two men attending President Donald Trump’s rally in Ohio attacked a female protester in a “senseless” confrontation decried by the mayor of Youngstown on Tuesday.

A pair of males, one in an adjustable baseball cap and a bald man in a dark t-shirt, put hands on a woman Monday during the GOP event inside Covelli Centre in Youngstown, multiple videos of the incident showed.

The man in a blue baseball cap pawed at the woman, wearing a shirt reading “Release the Epstein Files,” and pushed her down before the balding man jumped on her.

He appeared to throw multiple punches at the woman’s face, pull her hair and put the victim in a headlock before uniformed law enforcement arrived to take the protester away.

“It must be emphatically stated that senseless (political) violence has absolutely NO place in our community or in our democratic process,” Youngstown Mayor Derrick McDowell said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon.

“Regardless of someone’s political affiliation or their point of view, every person attending a public event has the right to do so without fear of being assaulted or threatened,” he wrote. “I condemn this senseless conduct unequivocally.”

Youngstown police were not at…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/health