Summary

A 24-year-old man, Daniel Schmidt, was arrested after allegedly disrupting a voting line and assaulting an election judge in Orland Park, Illinois.

Schmidt reportedly attempted to skip the line, ignored repeated instructions to wait, and punched an election judge who tried to stop him, knocking off their glasses.

Other patrons restrained him until police arrived, at which point Schmidt resisted arrest. He faces multiple charges, including aggravated battery against a person over 60 and resisting arrest.

  • @rustyfish
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    12016 days ago

    Is this the second elderly who got punched in the face this election by a magat? I think it’s the second elderly punched in the face by a magat.

    ❤️Family values❤️

    • @just_another_person
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      6416 days ago

      It’s like the fifth or sixth. All Trump psychos doing the attacking, of course.

      • @frunch
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        2016 days ago

        The day is young, so many elderly out there for a young MAGA to assault!

      • @[email protected]
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        316 days ago

        I really hope I’m wrong, but I fully expect at least one shooting incident at a polling place today. I’ve seen multiple posts by redcaps claiming they plan to go armed, and they seem to be spoiling for a confrontation. I really hope everyone can stay safe.

    • Beacon
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      -4016 days ago

      Nowhere in the article does it say anything to suggest who he was voting for. In a population of 300 million there are gonna be some number of crazies in every demographic

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      y’all are loopy. I’m 100% team Harris, i even phonebanked for her - did you? All i said is that there’s nothing in the article about whether he’s a trumper or not, and there are some number of insane non-trumpers out there. If you think literally all people who aren’t voting for trump are sane, then you’re the one who’s insane. It doesn’t matter whether this particular person turns out to be trumper or not, the point is we shouldn’t jump to conclusions or else we’ll eventually wind up with egg on our face

      • @Moops
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        4116 days ago

        Political violence is pretty party-specific.

      • @Voyajer
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        2716 days ago

        He follows Trump’s Facebook page at the least

        • Hominine
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          1716 days ago

          Ew, a Facebook user, I knew it!

      • @Bertuccio
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        2116 days ago

        This is a good example of keeping your mind so open your brain falls out.

        No. The article doesn’t explicitly say what party he planned to vote for. That’s right.

        Almost all instances of election violence have been committed by the same party - even the attempted assassinations. I’m sure there could be examples of violence from the other party but I’m genuinely struggling to think of any.

        So if a reasonable person hears someone in an election line was violent they’re not going to think “well there are crazies on both sides, so yaneverknow.”

      • Optional
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        1316 days ago

        Let’s wager then. 10:1 odds, one millyun dollars.

      • @tee9000
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        16 days ago

        Agreed.

        Ive put so much time into lemmy but im realizing it may be best to start looking elsewhere.

        The amount of people that are fanatically ignorant is almost suspicious. How can this be a representation real people? Is this place just a magnet for no-lifers? Surely people dont want to spend their time reading or discussing articles like “Musk is realizing how dumb he is”.

        Its like looking at the dumbest possible representation of my beliefs to make me question if my beliefs themselves are dumb lol.