Man arrested Saturday at Elizabeth Warren's event in Storm Lakev

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Des Moines Register

Alex Ivanisevic, Des Moines Register
Published 4:25 p.m. CT Jan. 5, 2019 | Updated 6:15 p.m. CT Jan. 5, 2019

A Minnesota man was arrested Saturday after causing a disturbance at a Storm Lake event hosted by potential Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, local police report.

According to a release, Storm Lake officers were providing security for the afternoon rally when they saw Randal James Thom, 58, of Lakefield, Minnesota, become "very vocal" and "aggressive."

Police also said Thom "attempted to assault others in the crowd" while Warren, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, greeted attendees outside the venue.

Reporters present at the event noted that Thom was a supporter of President Donald Trump.


Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/01/05/minnesota-man-arrested-attempting-assault-people-sen-elizabeth-warren-storm-lake-political-rally/2492006002/

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Police officers escort Randal James Thom of Lakefield, Minnesota after he was arrested for disorderly conduct Saturday in Storm Lake.

[TeamPooka]

1. Another WOA

White, Old and Angry

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Yupper,

Lakefield's finest,yes sir re Bob. Hey,there are more of them. Just a little backassward Southern Minny wide spot in the road occupied by Trumpers.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

11. +1...

... not many know that at one time, the people of Minnesota nearly kicked out the southern 1/3 of the state to go on their own or join Iowa.

[Wellstone ruled]

22. Ah the good old days.

The hate runs deep. Spent the Bulk of fifty plus years in Sales in Southern and Western Minny. The main game changer is the Food Manufacturing Busisness's. These old White Folks have always found some "boogie man" to blame their so called fake bad luck on. Watched over the decades how the labor necessary needed to produce these products has changed. Once the Packinghouse Labor Unions were wrecked,btw,many of these hate filled old white people wrote letters to the local editors complaining about the high wages these workers were receiving. Making this even more idiotic,these were their relatives,and neighbors. Stupid runs deep among certain populations.

Running joke for years was,Iowa is Minnesota's Baha.

[TeamPooka]

23. My FIL in Western PA is always complaining about how the teachers (who are vastly underpaid there)

are making too much money.
I am the son of a public school teacher single parent mom and I gently correct him on t5he facts very often.
We don't visit that often.

[Wellstone ruled]

24. Oh how I have heard that statement on many

occasions. When one has a School Board Member make that statement,and yes I have had it happen more than once,Houston,we have a problem.

Here is one really backassward statement I got from a Southern Minnesota School Board Member on one Sales Call. Well,my Grand Mother was a Teacher,and she got free room and board and a small stipend for her Teaching the kids at the local one room school. Huh,ya,that was a common thing at the turn of the century in areas of Rural America. My Grand Mothers Sister did the same in Rural Iowa in and around 1900. And this Guy was telling me this what Teachers should get paid in the late 1990's. And he was a School Board member reelected by his neighbors for years .

Sometimes one surly wants to bang your head against the wall,

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

28. Eastern South Dakota is like that, too...

... at family reunion picnics, held in beautiful McKennan Park in Sioux Falls, the farmers from west of the Vermillion River would sit and gripe, "anyone living in Sioux Falls and making more than $5 an hour is a crook; they don't have to pay for gas to go to the stores so they don't need that much of a wage...". And think Sioux Falls is crazy for requiring steel firedoors between the garage and house... too much gubment...

But when disaster hits those small towns west of the Vermillion River, Sioux Falls is the first to send and even GIVE fire trucks and equipment to the local volunteer fire departments whose town and fire station was wiped out by tornadoes.

[Wellstone ruled]

29. When I mention Western Minny,

my territory's western edge was Hwy 81,up to 212. What you mentioned is just one of those stupid statements. Sad to say,it still holds as of this past summer. Always considered the James River as the Sanity point in Sodak. But in the last decade,Souix Falls seems to be the only some what sane area left .

[INdemo]

21. At Walmart yesterday in checkout line and picked up a book

on the side shelf "Trumps Enemies" just to read excerpts of all the bullshit that was probably in the book.
1/2 paragraph half way thru book and I said OMG what bullshit (low voice)
The guy in front of me turned as saw the book as I was putting it back on the shelf and he said "Nice book,lots of truth in there" and I said this guy needs to be escorted from the White House in handcuffs by Federal marshals. His apparent wife said "What has he done" I said "Really" the man is a crook and Russian agent"
Then happen to notice a Trump/Pence 2020 shirt. Well I said ...Don't believe he will be there that long He will resign or be impeached.....
Now this whole conversation took about not over 1 minute.
I believe the whole damn area heard the conversation and everyone were no doubt Trump supporters.
Their jobs are being replace by self-check outs and they are no doubt watching Faux news and loving the MAGA guy.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Straight out of central casting

[Aristus]

16. Yeah, he fits the phenotype, all right.

[populistdriven]

4. Disgusted at these fuckers

They really hate having their privileges threatened.

Thanks Police!

[djacq]

5. When the Deplorables come out.

Way to represent Minnesota Randal... Way to represent.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. He's no stranger to law enforcement, either.

The state of Minnesota has a database, MNCIS, which shows this guy has a long record of bad behavior - mostly misdemeanors, DUI, drug possession, assault, driving after revocation, theft (one listed as a felony), lots and lots of traffic violations. A fine, upstanding Trumper. http://pa.courts.state.mn.us/Search.aspx?ID=100

[bluestarone]

15. YES All the qualifications to be a RUMP supporter

HIS base is full of these type people!!!!! True CHRISTIANS!

[mastermind]

7. Typical symptom of a fox news lobotomy. nt

[Dopers_Greed]

8. Looks like a violent thug to me

[Gravitycollapse]

9. He was in a Full Frontal (Samantha Bee) video at the Trump inauguration and at a rally last year...

(Starting at 1:41)

(Starting at 2:17)

[Judi Lynn]

10. Oh, geez! He's really so odd. I don't think he's totally sane. Yuk.

Thank you for finding these videos. Truly interesting, and NOT complementary to Trump, are they?

[UpInArms]

12. Oh my

Those videos were disturbing

[riversedge]

13. A few photos here...

Link to tweet

[paleotn]

14. That's him....

..the prototypical shitler supporter. Old, white, ignorant and easily manipulated.

[DallasNE]

17. Warren Opens Campaign In Steven King Country

And the predictable thing happens. Actually, that was a pretty smart move on her part.

[rgbecker]

18. He's been to 30 trump rallies....Apparently his first Warren rally.

Probably won't be to too many more.

See the videos in the Samantha Bee clip above?

These Trumpers are like Greatfull Dead fans!

[Gumboot]

19. Ah yes, the camo hat.

One of the most reliable indicators of a runty lil' KKKrybaby.

Hats off to the female officer for cuffin' & stuffin' him.

[INdemo]

20. Tell ya what with all the MAGA crazies and all the Nazi mfer's supporting

Dumb Fuck I fear this is going to happen a lot with all the Democratic candidates and its scary as hell and Dumb Fuck will just encourage it..

[B Stieg]

25. Lock who up?

Just sayin'!

[DeafAngelboy23]

26. Well...

There’s always at least one to show up 😏

[trueblue2007]

27. throw him in the slammer

he is probably a violent man. Bet my little fingernail that he assaults women.