{"id":1192078,"date":"2020-06-24T15:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kereport.com\/?p=71877"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T20:16:06","slug":"do-the-peaceful-protesters-have-your-attention-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1192078","title":{"rendered":"Do the \u201cpeaceful protesters\u201d have your attention yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Democrat State Sen. Lands In the Hospital After Being Attacked By Protesters<\/h1>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mrctv.org\/files\/styles\/avatar\/s3\/avatars\/2017-06\/brittany.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/author\/brittany-m-hughes\">Brittany M. Hughes<\/a>&nbsp;,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealBrittHughes\">@RealBrittHughes<\/a>June. 24. 20204.4kviews25shares<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Democrat state senator landed in the hospital after being attacked by nearly a dozen \u201cprotesters\u201d in&nbsp;Madison, Wisconsin Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Tim Carpenter, 60, said he stopped to take video of the unrest taking place near the state Capitol \u2013 unrest that also left two statues destroyed and multiple businesses vandalized \u2013 when he was jumped by a mob of rioters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t know what happened \u2026 all I did was stop and take a picture \u2026 and the next thing I\u2019m getting five-six punches, getting kicked in the head,\u2019 Carpenter told the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/2020\/06\/24\/madison-protesters-pull-down-forward-hans-christian-heg-statues-attack-senator-sculptures-in-lake\/3247948001\/\">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video that Carpenter took at the scene shows him pointing his camera phone towards a group of rowdy protesters when one woman breaks from the group and charges him, screaming at him to stop filming. An altercation ensued, cutting off the video feed. Bystanders reported Carpenter was seen kneeling by his car after the attack, and that paramedics were called after he collapsed trying to walk to the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter said the attack&nbsp;left him with a concussion, blurry vision and soreness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took this pic- it got me assaulted &amp; beat up,\u201d Carpenter wrote on Twitter. \u201cPunched\/kicked in the head, neck, ribs. Maybe concussion, socked in left eye is little blurry, sore neck &amp; ribs. 8-10 people attacked me. Innocent people are going to get killed. Capitol locked- stuck in office. Stop violence now [please]!\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimCarpenterMKE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1154467104554283008\/4gXerKKJ_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimCarpenterMKE\"><strong>Tim Carpenter<\/strong>@TimCarpenterMKE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimCarpenterMKE\/status\/1275716467007328258\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_\/status\/1275664180994080768\">Replying to @lanceveeser<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took this pic- it got me assaulted &amp; beat up. Punched\/kicked in the head, neck, ribs. Maybe concussion, socked in left eye is little blurry, sore neck &amp; ribs. 8-10 people attacked me. Innocent people are going to get killed. Capitol locked- stuck in office.Stop violence nowPlz!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimCarpenterMKE\/status\/1275716467007328258\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/like?tweet_id=1275716467007328258\">1,645<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimCarpenterMKE\/status\/1275716467007328258\">2:04 AM &#8211; Jun 24, 2020<\/a>&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=place%3A07d9f5bc6e086003\">Wisconsin State Capitol<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175256\">Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat State Sen. Lands In the Hospital After Being Attacked By Protesters Brittany M. Hughes&nbsp;,&nbsp;@RealBrittHughesJune. 24. 20204.4kviews25shares A Democrat state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192079,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192078\/revisions\/1192079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}