William A. Jacobson @ Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion:
WaPo reports, Crowder files complaint with Michigan state troopers:
Delivering on a pledge that he made this week on “Hannity,” Fox News contributor Steven Crowder has filed a complaint with the Michigan State Police in connection with the pummeling he sustained during the union protests Tuesday in the Michigan capital of Lansing. Richard Hale, the shift supervisor at the Lansing post of the Michigan State Police, just told the Erik Wemple Blog that he’d spoken with Crowder not long ago. “By calling in, he’s in essence filed a complaint. He’s initiated the process for the filing of a criminal complaint,” said Hale….
“We’ll have to do an investigation and submit it” to prosecutors, said Hale
Via Newsbusters (h/t Instapundit), left-wing blogs are claiming that the union guy was justified because Crowder initiated the contact. The evidence for that is that the union guy is seen getting up from the ground.
The story took an interesting twist on Wednesday, when liberal blogger Chris Savageclaimed that the footage of the incident had been “selectively edited” to unfairly portray the union protester as the aggressor.
Selective editing at about the 0:39 mark shows what appears to be union guy attacking Crowder for no apparent reason. However, if you look closely, you’ll see that the guy is getting up off the ground — that he was NOT the one that became aggressive first.
The blogs claim the video was selectively edited to cut that out the image of the guy getting up, but in fact — as I discussed the other day in response to such a charge — the original video shows the union guy getting up from the ground and is missing only about a second or so of that image.
More important, the video does not show how the guy got on the ground, and certainly does not show the guy under any threat that would justify him punching Crowder in the face. Crowder was several feet away when the guy lunged at him and sucker punched him.
Local to me was a prop 63 that tried to force hotels with more than 100 rooms to pay everyone $13/hour or more.
A 2nd major Long Beach hotel just laid EVERYBODY off!
Maybe the unions or some other liberals can buy the places and reopen them at tremendous losses.
More likely not.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hotel-firings-20121215,0,5753369.story
TENTAZIGATE:
Another Breitbart Fake Outrage Bites the Dust: Crowder Admits He Shoved Union Members
http://goo.gl/XjSSP
Crowder, the white Kenneth Gladney
http://www.salon.com/2011/07/14/gladney_case_conspiracy/
The Union guy was attempting to get the tent to collapse. This started the entire incident. If Crowder acted to try to prevent that, which I think he claimed he did, then I don’t see how he originated the scuffle. Crowder claimed the guy tripped over a tent stake and fell as he was in the process of property destruction. Crowder was trying to protect the people in the tent. Only the union folks cheered when the tent fell. Draw your own conclusions.