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.
Which party I wonder…
It’s crazy, it’s always the party you’d most expect.
The one prone to violence and has control issues, then wonders why no one likes them except dumb, or sociopathic people, so they make up false equivalencies and conspiracies to justify their own sad existence? Hopefully the voters wake up and do a purge. Especially in the midterms.
“Libertarians” who always seem to vote Republican
That of law and order, supposedly
Gotta keep the pigs employed somehow.
Man, so much violence from both sides… It’s hard to say.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
That’s one way to stop a trump vote, ask them to follow the rules and be curtious to others till they punch you in the face and get ejected from the voting location.
We need more people that can take a punchat voting locations. We only have so many old people.
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❤️
It’s like the fifth or sixth. All Trump psychos doing the attacking, of course.
Second so far …
The day is young, so many elderly out there for a young MAGA to assault!
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.
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
EDIT
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
Political violence is pretty party-specific.
He follows Trump’s Facebook page at the least
Ew, a Facebook user, I knew it!
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.”
Let’s wager then. 10:1 odds, one millyun dollars.
His actions are a pretty big indicator but not 100% true.
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.
Let me guess: registered as Republican, yes?
Good. One less.
Breaking news: we have confirmed he was republican based on a misunderstanding in Lemmy comments.
Magats PUNCHING elderly people is JOE BIDENS fault because Joe Biden NEVER told Republicans NOT to Punch Elderly People! Family Values!
If Trump claimed it was Joe’s fault because he punches elderly people in the face every day, 30+% of the country wouldn’t just believe it without question but would start claiming it immediately.
Sounds like he won’t have to worry about voting for a long time, since I’m guessing theres at least one felony somewhere in those charges.
- 2 counts of Aggravated Battery to a victim over 60 (Class 3 Felony)
- 2 counts of Aggravated Battery in a public place (Class 3 Felony),
- 5 misdemeanor counts of Resisting Arrest
- 1 misdemeanor count of Disorderly Conduct
Let me guess who he was planning on voting for.
FUCK YOU OLD MAN I NEED TO PROTECT WOMENS HEALTH!
Well on the plus side, if he gets convicted (likely) he’ll be a felon who won’t be able to vote again ever.
Illinois allows felons to vote once they’re not actively serving a sentence in prison.
If his party wins, no one will vote again ever. Or if they do it will be in a sham election.
I’m usually not one for disenfranchising felons, but when the offense is attacking the elections process itself I can make an exception!
He may just be counting on a lifetime Trump dictatorship (complete with a pardon for his assault, since he did it for the “greater good”)
That’s OK, he can still run for president!
That’s bad. Once they serve their time they should be allowed to vote.
They should be allowed to vote while incarcerated as well.
What a piece of schmidt.
24-year-old Daniel Schmidt
tch. Danny, Danny, Danny. You done fucked up Danny boy.
Schmidt, huh? Good German name innit. Is that a tattoo on your neck there ol Danster? Hey - I hear in prison you can meet new people!
Y’see Danny - what we have here is something we call an egregious crime. Can you say egregious? . . . very close! Anyway, you’ve got a room full of people who saw you act like a total MAGAt and punch a poll worker. They don’t like that Danny. They’re gonna testify, Danny. You’re fucked on this one Danny.
But hey. Your demented rapist sociopath god will surely pardon you right? Good thing you didn’t make the national news with a big ol’ picture of your stupid ass face for - y’know - future gangs or whatever it is you may have wanted to do with your life or whatever.
On the other hand - it’s a hell of an origin story for someone who never shows up in social media or the news again and spends their life helping others because they fucked up so bad. There’s some audacious hope!
Hopefully he did this before he voted
according to the article he didnt wait in line. thats the punch line
Now they will claim the election is rigged because someone was prevented from entering the voting area.
Why does it makes a difference if the person is over 60? Shouldn’t aggravated battery be aggregated battery no matter who the victim is?
Same reason it makes a difference whether the victim is a child, an elderly person is more likely to suffer long-term and more adverse effects from an assault.
its significant that the assaulter was 24 and the victim is over 60. Now granted he was lucky that pole worker was not my brother or David ‘The Rock’ Nelson.
A pole worker is something…different. You’re thinking of a poll worker.
on hindsight I should have said election judge.
Same for an erection judge ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Because the elderly are a vulnerable population like children.
You never know the health condition of people, hitting someone is hitting someone is hitting someone.
That’s reductive. Give them any definition you like but you have to accept that children and the elderly are different than people aged, say, 18-60.
As I mentioned in another comment you can hit a 30 years old in the chest not knowing they have a heart issue and they will die on the spot, you can hit a 60 years old that works security that will kick your ass. Hitting someone is wrong no matter who it is and should lead to the same consequences no matter who it is, if that means making consequences harsher if the victim is 18 to 59 then so be it.
Basically you don’t want to accept that some classes require protection under this odd “everyone is the equal” thing.
I suspect the main purpose of those laws was to handle the increasing problem of elder abuse.
Personally I’m glad to see that so many states make a distinction (hopefully with harsher consequences) for battery against older people, because of all the stories I’ve seen this week about magats punching old people. I haven’t seen any stories about them punching the ones who would be able to put up a fight, funny how that works.
You can hit someone 30 in the chest and it turns out they have a health condition and they die of heart failure, you can hit someone 61 that works security that will then kick your ass. In the end hitting people is wrong no matter who gets hit and should come with the same conservative no matter who gets hit.
