Two males have been taken into custody following a brawl between protestors — together with a congressional candidate — and 4 different males outdoors a political occasion that includes the “Squad” congresswomen, the Somerville Police Department mentioned Sunday.
The police had been known as after a verbal dispute between two protestors, recognized as Richard Cadigan-McCarron and Shawn Nelson, and the group of males escalated right into a bodily confrontation after 4 p.m. behind the Somerville Theatre, the division mentioned.
Two of the lads preventing the protestors, Foster Starkes of Cambridge and Andwain Coleman of Cuyahoga, Ohio, have been charged with assault and battery with a lethal weapon, in accordance with the division. The weapons weren’t recognized.
Police verify one of many protestors was taken to the hospital. Nelson was handled at Cambridge Hospital for scrapes — seen on his face and leg in a single video posted to social media — and a damaged toe, Cadigan-McCarron mentioned.
The sold-out occasion at Somerville Theatre, titled “An Evening with the Squad,” was in progress when the incident occurred Saturday afternoon.
The occasion featured performances by native artists and a roundtable with U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib mediated by creator and activist Ibram X. Kendi.
Donnie Palmer, a Republican congressional candidate difficult Pressley, organized a protest of the occasion to lift consciousness of the alleged homicide of a younger conservative man in North Dakota, in accordance with a MassGOP assertion.
Palmer, an expert heavyweight boxer and Army veteran, may be seen becoming a member of the brawl in a single video.
The males “had to be stopped before they hurt more bystanders, so I obliged,” Palmer mentioned in a press release.
“Violence is never the answer,” Palmer continued, accusing “radical progressives” of instigating the incident.
Neither man arrested has ties verified by the Herald to the congresswomen or occasion.
Pressley’s workforce didn’t reply to request for remark Sunday.
Both Starkes and Coleman are scheduled to be arraigned in Somerville District Court.
The incident stays underneath investigation by Somerville Police, the division mentioned.
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