Arrest made after black campaign worker threatened at early-voting location

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Source: CBS News

Arrest made after black campaign worker threatened at early-voting location

8:56 AM EDT POLITICS

BY HOLLY ROSENKRANTZ / CBS NEWS

Police arrested a man for allegedly harassing and threatening to assault a black GOP campaign worker at an early-voting location in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon, according to CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte. ... The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. at a voting location in the 11000 block of South Tryon Street, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Officers arrived in response to an armed man threatening a campaign worker at a voting location.

Officials say a black man said he was working at the voting location when he saw the armed man in the parking lot with a camera taking pictures or recording the polling location. Police say he approached the campaign worker, and began hurling racial slurs, according to a report from CMPD.

{text of tweet: GOP campaign worker says 2men threatened and hurled insults +Nword. Police arrest one man tonight saying he had a BB gun on his hip. @wbtvnews @11p.}

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The campaign worker said the armed man threatened to assault him before lifting his shirt and displaying a handgun which was in a holster on his belt. He told police the armed man never assaulted him or attempted to remove the handgun from the holster.

Around 9:15 p.m., Jason Donald Wayne, 28, was arrested. Police say he was carrying a BB gun in a holster which was located and seized as evidence. Police say Wayne was charged with going armed to the terror of the people, ethnic intimidation, communicating threats and disorderly conduct.
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[stopbush]

1. tRump's America.

One of tRump’s Second Amendment warriors.

[Blue_Tires]

2. "Economic anxieties" strike again

[Bengus81]

3. Previously arrested TWICE for assault,looks like a Trump supporter on the prowl

[safeinOhio]

4. BB gun Bob

strikes.

[salin]

5. I feel I should know this off of the top of my head - but what is that "logo" on his shirt?

Hideous, familiar, but eluding me right now.

[Archae]

7. "The Punisher" logo from marvel comics.

A vigilante sort of along the lines of Charles Bronson's character in "Death Wish."

[salin]

8. Thanks.

[7962]

11. Its also been long used by Special Forces like the SEALs

Never got a lot of publicity until recent years and now everyone thinks its cool to wear, like you'd think THEY were one of them.
You can get window stickers too!

[salin]

13. this is probably what I have seen.

thanks.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Someone needs to give him a spanking and also charge him too for ...

voter suppression, interfering w/ an election (which should be counting as 'bad' as illegally voting per the repubs).

None of us needs these scumbags like this ever around. Coward. If I see the likes of people like this around our voting place, I'd kick their a**, and then go inside calmly and vote. I, like I was in high school, am sick and tired of these bullies and have had enough, and pretty let them know it too.

Remember all DUers. Watch your backs, don't back down from bullies (call cops and/or 800 numbers provided if any election issues), and VOTE most importantly of all.

Take care.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "threatening to assault a black GOP campaign worker" - THIS is the irony.

Now does that "black GOP campaign worker" finally realize how far his party has descended?

Time to abandon ship cuz.

[lagomorph777]

10. GOP on GOP violence?

Sheesh, these clowns need to get their shit straight.

[SKKY]

12. I'm just so sick of all this winning...

...it's really just a soul-crushing amount of winning.

[LakeSuperiorView]

14. They need to make Ralphie hold a bar of soap in his mouth and sit his ass in jail.

He could shoot his eye out with his weapon...

Middle name Donald, not surprising he's only packing a bb gun...

[cntrfthrs]

15. why oh why oh why...

dont I ever run into these racist sons of bitches???