Just after Valle is tackled and shoved to the ground, the tackler (identified by blogs as Mike Pezzano) reached around under Valle's arm and grabbed her left breast in a violent manner (approx. the 20 second mark on the video below). It is obviously not a slip of his hand.
What happened to Lauren Valle is as close to rape as anything you will ever see. After this video, hell - it is rape.
UPDATE: As with so many violent, sexually-motivated assaults, Pezzano's co-perpetrator, Tim Profitt, is defiant. He wants an apology from the victim!
And, as with so many victims of assaults of a sexual nature, Lauren Valle continues to suffer the indignities of the more wide-spread violence in the media: the right wing is either laughing at Valle or boasting that 'she deserved what she got'. Heard that one before?
UPDATE II: Tim F at Balloon Juice remarks on the same thing. He calls it 'groping'. As does Mahablog. They're being kind.
UPDATE III: Blogger Uzza has also been on the case, noting that the perp felt up Valle twice, once with his other hand.
Cross posted (under different title) at Sister Sage's Musings
8 comments:
"Come and get them" just took on a whole new (yucky!) meaning. I didn't see that part, but I'm gonna have to look again!
Queen, I think everyone is so freaked out at the blatant violence of the attack, nobody has had time to analyze the video. On the big screen during Olbermann's replay after replay, the frame by frame breakdown makes it obvious. I wonder when the sexual aspect will hit the media fan?
I hope this goatee sporting red neck trailer trash is found eating his own gun.
Nice to see somebody else on this. Why is everyone so focused on the stomp, and ignoring the grope? Which is worse?
Both are equally bad. NOBODY in that video has the right to manhandle anyone else.
Stay classy, GOP.
I notices the grope -- these guys a really pigs.
So, her shoulder is her head, and her armpit is a tit?
Stomps??? where was the stomping. Also, it convenient that this video was left out until AFTER all the craziness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiLeud-sxrM&feature=player_embedded
If any other candidate was assaulted by a person in a disguise with something in their hand they could not tell, I am certain the same reaction would have occurred.
Could they have mellowed out once they saw it was just a nutcase woman?? totally.
btw Rand Paul has the right to report assault and battery since the sign and an unknown object struck him.
Also this woman has a long history of this behavior and it seems like a total set up.
She knew if she rushed to his car shoving something in his face she would be pulled back..
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