I’m not sure it could be proven that he had his hands gripped on her at all. Seems to me he slipped between people while making his way to Trump.
It could have been his forearm stuck out in the way a man does while squeezing through a crowd.
It should be an embarrassment to Florida that someone was able to bring this charge. And I was looking at the police video that they released.
Indeed, it is ridiculous. It looks to me like he is oblivious of her and grabs her arm as a means to get to Trump, who is “getting away” from him.
Trust me, the Cruzbots-—but worse, the GOPe sniveling cowards on Twitter are going nuts over this. “Culture of violence”/Hitler stuff.
The real culture of violence here is what is being attempted to the election system by the GOPe operatives and Cruz to undermine the will of the voters. Any other time, with any other candidate (say, the guy in Mississippi who ran against Cochran), co-called “conservatives” would be squealing like pigs about the utter usurpation of the electoral process.
Remember the last time someone got away with murder and all the press did was marvel at how well he executed the moves? Conservatives railed at Slick Willie’s abuse of the system, even if often technically legal, because IT JUST WASN’T RIGHT. Now these same “conservatives” are supporting this crap.
David Martosko✔@dmartosko
UPDATE: Member of Trump's Secret Service detail confirms Fields touched Trump twice and was warned to stop, before Lewandowski intervened 11:40 AM - 29 Mar 2016