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Fox News Contributor Steven Crowder Files Criminal Complaint After Alleged Assault By Pro-Union
Mediaite ^ | 12-14-2012 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 12/14/2012 9:42:59 AM PST by smoothsailing

December 14, 2012

Fox News Contributor Steven Crowder Files Criminal Complaint After Alleged Assault By Pro-Union Protester

Noah Rothman

Fox News commentator Steven Crowder has filed a complaint with the Michigan State Police in relation to an assault he sustained by a pro-union protester while attending a demonstration outside Michigan’s state capitol on December, 11. The protesters were demonstrating against the state legislature’s efforts to pass right to work laws in the heavily unionized state. Crowder joined the protests in support of those controversial laws.

The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple spoke with Richard Hale, the shift supervisor at the Lansing post of the Michigan State Police, who confirmed that Crowder has begun the process of filing a criminal complaint:

“By calling in, he’s in essence filed a complaint. He’s initiated the process for the filing of a criminal complaint,” Hale told Wemple.

Since the incident, Crowder says that he has legitimate fears for his safety as he is receiving disturbing threats on a regular basis.

Crowder recently tweeted that he has engaged the services of a former police officer to provide protective services for his wife. “Right now I have a former police officer, heavily armed at my house protecting my wife,” Crowder wrote. “The threats are severe. Prayers appreciated.”


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foxnews; stevencrowder; thugs; union
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To: Bernard Marx

Exactly. I’d like to see how they felt with rabid crowd. You can be the biggest, baddest person in town, but you can’t take on 100 grown men.


61 posted on 12/14/2012 10:44:45 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: smoothsailing
Why is there no presence of ANY police in the video? The supporters of Right to Work obtained a permit, erected their tent and NO POLICE PRESENCE?

It looks as though the TALIBAN UNIONISTS and the POLICE are perfect together.
62 posted on 12/14/2012 10:46:39 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: smoothsailing

Can he sue the IBEW under the RICO act?


63 posted on 12/14/2012 10:47:46 AM PST by DownInFlames
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To: smoothsailing

It’s about damned time...

Sue the unions and people involved PERSONALLY, and make it HURT....

The left is looking for MARTYRS right now, and are hell-bent on creating some. Dead useful idiots for “THE CAUSE!”


64 posted on 12/14/2012 10:48:15 AM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: AlmaKing
"I saw Greta’s interview with the Michigan state police commander last night. When she asked him what he was doing with the situation, he said ‘nothing, because no one filed a complaint.’"

If you get murdered in Michigan, they won't do anything about it unless someone files a complaint? That seems to be the logical extension of his statement.

65 posted on 12/14/2012 10:49:12 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com)
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To: autumnraine

If you check the video after the assault, another teamster attempted to grab Crowder from behind by his jacket and drag him back into the crowd. Yes, it could have easily ignited a powderkeg response...


66 posted on 12/14/2012 10:51:17 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase (Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This could set the precedent that union thugs are not exempt from the Hobbs Anti-Extortion Act when they commit violent acts while seeking to advance so-called "legitimate union objectives."

I am waiting for the group whose tent was destroyed and who were physically assaulted and intimidated with weapons also to file charges.

But that's just the beginning.

We should expect, indeed demand, that all future union contracts will have an ironclad clause that any similar entensively documented violence in the future be subject to instant and permanent dismissal, and the union fined significant punitive amounts.

In addition to the Hobbs Anti-Extortion Act, the RICO statutes certainly also apply.

And in the future, all damage to public property will be punishable by total restitution and jail time for the organizers.

The time for the criminal class to terrorize entire cities is past!

67 posted on 12/14/2012 10:52:16 AM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: Wiggins
In this day of tight budgets, it would be difficult for a detective to explain to the Chief why he spent x number of hours investigating a non-death/non-serious injury incident in which no complaint had been filed.

Now one has...

68 posted on 12/14/2012 10:58:55 AM PST by donozark (I was planning to spend Christmas in Damascus, until I read Isiah 17:1...)
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To: jazusamo

Here’s a very good piece, it’s one of the best I’ve read so far...

http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/12/14/in-defense-of-steven-crowder/


69 posted on 12/14/2012 11:00:47 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: publius911

You seem to forget who the USAG is.


70 posted on 12/14/2012 11:02:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator)
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To: cripplecreek

I agree, MI probably won’t do anything, unless pressed.
However, assault is assault, he is a union official and
as long as this behavior goes unreported and allowed it will
continue.
The perp needs to be brought forward to a court and at least
have notoriety and be exposed.
A friend’s son got into a fight like this over a girl.
Punch hit him in the temple and he died.
If people are allowed to get away with behavior like this
with no consequences then I can understand the lower state
of our society today.


71 posted on 12/14/2012 11:03:54 AM PST by deep trout
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To: AlmaKing
I saw Greta’s interview with the Michigan state police commander last night. When she asked him what he was doing with the situation, he said ‘nothing, because no one filed a complaint.’

This is Police Corruption pure and simple. Since when does the police anywhere require a complaint to be filed when they witness a mugging/assault in public?

HELLO??!!??

The incidence of this type of police union corruption nationwide is breathtaking.

72 posted on 12/14/2012 11:04:11 AM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: cripplecreek

I agree, MI probably won’t do anything, unless pressed.
However, assault is assault, he is a union official and
as long as this behavior goes unreported and allowed it will
continue.
The perp needs to be brought forward to a court and at least
have notoriety and be exposed.
A friend’s son got into a fight like this over a girl.
Punch hit him in the temple and he died.
If people are allowed to get away with behavior like this
with no consequences then I can understand the lower state
of our society today.


73 posted on 12/14/2012 11:05:54 AM PST by deep trout
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To: smoothsailing

He should also file a civil lawsuit as well and sue for emotional distress and bodily harm.


74 posted on 12/14/2012 11:10:14 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: smoothsailing

“Alleged” assault by organized criminals.


75 posted on 12/14/2012 11:12:26 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: smoothsailing
That's an excellent piece and reflects the common sense shown by Crowder when this happened.

The video I saw on the day it took place didn't show Crowder do a single thing that could be considered aggressive, in fact he was trying to calm fatty down.

I don't believe Crowder or anyone else with a lick of sense would have tried to start a fight with any of those union goons that day with the animal behavior they were expressing, a person would have had to have a death wish.

76 posted on 12/14/2012 11:20:45 AM PST by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: smoothsailing

And post #2....

That is assault and battery. Usually a felony.

If this guy gets off, then I want to see alot more people get charges dropped for plain assault. This guy needs to do some serious fines and community service, anger management, etc. I have seen finer people get hit hard with assault charges for less (no physical attack). Me included.

My feeling is they will slap him on the wrist and deferr him on account of the deep pockets of his union. Don’t doubt me...


77 posted on 12/14/2012 11:24:02 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Those union jackwipes all look the same, don’t they.


78 posted on 12/14/2012 11:28:19 AM PST by mancini
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To: jazusamo

In the video, at 49 seconds, was someone yelling “He’s got a gun”?

I could swear that’s what it sounded like.

Crowder was smart.

Those were not sane people.

It was a mob of Dem demonics.


79 posted on 12/14/2012 11:30:03 AM PST by Salamander (If animals could speak, mankind would weep.)
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To: smoothsailing

Was Rodney King’s beating alleged?


80 posted on 12/14/2012 11:38:28 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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