Crazed Hillary Fan Arrested in Violent Attack on Bernie Supporters

[Cheese Sandwich]

Actor Wendell Pierce, who is in Atlanta shooting a film, was arrested after allegedly attacking a Bernie Sanders supporter, according to TMZ.

TMZ said Pierce, at the Loews hotel last night, met with a woman and her boyfriend in the lobby. They supposedly had a conversation that went political. Pierce is a Hillary Clinton supporter. The woman was supposedly a supporter of Bernie Sanders. Pierce allegedly pushed the boyfriend and went after the woman, grabbing her hair and smacking her in the head.

http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2016/05/15/tmz-wendell-pierce-the-wire-arrested-for-allegedly-attacking-bernie-sanders-supporter/

[pdsimdars]

1. we've seen these reports in the last days about how Hillary supporters are actually

the more obnoxious and aggressive. And we should have known that right from the start because of them attacking Bernie supporters for it. That's how they do, just like the Republicans, accuse the opposition of things you are doing. That's just what they did.

[grasswire]

3. when you are following the likes of David Brock, Sid Vicious...

...and the bitter and scolding HRC herself, this is what can happen to you.

[Fawke Em]

53. I keep seeing this about Sid Vicious.

He's long since dead. Is there another one?

[grasswire]

68. it's the nickname for Sidney Blumenthal.

Guess I should have explained that.

[riversedge]

4. This is the first one I have seen. Do you have any evidence of your claim? BTW-I think

the person in the OP deserved to be arrested. Neither side should get violent.

[RKP5637]

26. Exactly!!! I agree with you 1,000%! n/t

[annavictorious]

51. Hillary Clinton needs to be indicted for this, her latest crime.

Sorry, but this is not going to deflect from what happened in Nevada last night.

[Number23]

64. I'm sure it was an online poll. You know those things that always seem to favor Sanders

no matter what the question is.

I'm sure that the hordes of online Sanders supporters that always vote 19 times in these sorts of things had no influence whatsoever. Not at all.

[northernsouthern]

80. I have seen plenty on here and in real life.

The constant sexist and racist attacks from the HRC crew on here are bad enough, but in our caucus we had the one older white lady that screamed at the people running it when they said they did not like the super-delegates in response to 800+ people out of 1000 demanding the super-delegates be neutral or reflect the votes before they donate to the party (they were asking for money from us). The angry lady got up and screamed at all of the people running it and then yelled at the audience calling us all sexist, and caused a slightly younger disable vet in crutches to have a break down...There is also that guy in the theater that yelled at Bernie and blamed the Jews for NY housing prices.

[840high]

85. I first read it on DailyMail. Pics and all.

[TDale313]

5. Yeah, not news.

Seen some seriously ugly shit from the Hillary camp. They genuinely hate us for crashing "their" party- even though many of us are lifelong Dems.

[MisterP]

11. when there's no policy to argue on, all that's left is to make it personal

it's a compensating mechanism

also, booze

[riversedge]

69. That poster has no evidence and neither do you. Just smearing Hillary!!

[Betty Karlson]

90. Clinton's supporters are a lot of former 'core republicans' - why else would she go for the Bush

donors and Reagan voters, or whatever those aging homophobes are called these days?

[zazen]

2. neither Hillary nor Bernie are responsible for crazy supporters like this

Not saying you're suggesting this--but I want to be clear that I don't want to hold Clinton responsible for bad behavior like this any more than I'd hold Sanders responsible for something like that by one of his supporters.

On the other hand, bullying, aggression, the threat of violence and actual violence are "baked in" to support for Donald Trump--it's just a matter of time and opportunity .

[grasswire]

6. Hillary and her attack dogs set the tone.

Just like Trump and his attack dogs do.

Brock, Sid Vicious, and HRC herself (despite the framing of "love and kindness&quot model mean, bitter behavior. We see the results right here on DU, daily.

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. I have to agree the Hillary campaign and her superpacs have set a violent tone from the beginning

and done everything possible to escalate these kinds of tensions.

[grasswire]

20. It has always been the Clintons style.

Hyper Aggressive, with intermittent pivots to victim stance, then back to aggressive. Rinse, repeat.

[bvf]

19. Yep.

WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
HILLARY IS INEVITABLE.

[cui bono]

22. Yes, and they created all the divisive memes about race, gender etc... from the get go.

And then her supporters create hate spewing websites whose sole purpose was to attack Bernie and his supporters.

They look at this primary as a war and they don't care about casualties, even if it is the Dem Party itself.

.

[annavictorious]

56. Look over here...a Clinton supporter had too much to drink on a Saturday night

and did something stupid. And it's all Hillary Clinton's fault because she put that chip in his brain that controls his every action.

But you're all so willing to give Dr. Song a pass on his whore remark...

Sorry, but we're still going to be talking about last night's big story...the misogyny in Nevada.
Way to court the super delegates, Bernie! You rock!

[Sejon]

62. Why shouldn't he have got a pass?

The whole thing was ridiculous and deliberately twisted into something it wasn't.

[grasswire]

66. what you say matters very little.

They are making a machine in California to measure how little influence HRC flacks have.

[TDale313]

9. Demonizing Bernie supporters has come from the top.

of the Hillary camp. Bernie has actively denounced bad behavior on the part of his supporters and there have not been the same type of blanket attacks on her supporters. Yes, I'm saying it- I blame the Clinton Political machine for the divisiveness we've seen. They stoked this. They made Sanders' supporters the enemy from pretty much day one. They called us tea party left- said those of us female and supporting him were just looking for the boys and deserved a special place in hell. Called us and Bernie racist and misogynist. They pulled this shit in '08. They villied us. And we're surprised some of her supporters got the message that we were evil?

[AzDar]

27. ^ This.

[Punkingal]

36. Amen!

the only place I have ever been called a racist is here.

[northernsouthern]

82. 100000%^^^^

Just replied to another post saying the Bernie supporters are all angry white guys responsible for abusing women and harm to minorities.

[Cheese Sandwich]

44. Yep. The whole campaign we've been hearing about how awful Bernie supporters are

The Clinton crew worked overtime to demonize.

I don't know if it can ever be forgiven what they have done.

[SwampG8r]

95. I do know and it cant

I have been called things here that are.too.nasty to forgive. And since in clintonland supporters.equal.candidates well you can postulate the rest
Nothing will get me to pull a lever for.someone who has talked about me this way.
Since in hillaryland supporters.equal.candidates. hillary shouldnt have spoken to me.in that way because it cost her my vote.

[JTFrog]

98. If his supporters don't want to be called misogynists, maybe there shouldn't be 130 recs for one of

the most disgusting sexist attacks just this weekend on Clinton and her supporters. Maybe they shouldn't be screaming "bitch" at people like Barbara Boxer and civil rights leaders. Maybe.... just maybe....

After seeing this shit, any denial that actual racist and misogynistic "BernieBros" exist is fucking laughable.

[jeff47]

102. The horror of recs clearly is far worse than physically assaulting a woman. (nt)

[polly7]

109. Isn't that the truth. Revealing. nt.

[notadmblnd]

7. I thought all Clinton supporters were victims of one thing or another?

I find it pretty difficult to believe that one could be an abuser

[beedle]

114. I'm guessing he was abused by Bernie as a child

The poor woman beater ... #beatThatBitch-JustDon'tCallHerOne.

[coffeeAM]

10. They know what is coming with the inditements and Sanders taking it at the convention. Desperation

is a ugly thing!

[riversedge]

16. LOL.

[dchill]

79. Typical reasoned response.

[Tommy2Tone]

83. No kidding

Bernie fans channeling Fox News and TMZ for their unbiased opinions.

[Florencenj2point0]

18. don't be silly.... hey look

want to make a friendly bet? Hillary gets the nomination I get to write your little blurby thing at the bottom of your posts for a month. That includes graphics If Bernie wins you get to compose mine. If she is indicted, you get to write mine for two months! Deal?

[Fawke Em]

58. Thanks for proving the thread's point.

[frylock]

12. Sheeeeeeeeeiiiiit

[silvershadow]

13. This primary has gotten ugly. nt

[MineralMan]

14. Good. He should have been arrested.

He assaulted someone.

[whatchamacallit]

17. Make sure to add these incidents to your next "disturbing trend" OP

[Florencenj2point0]

15. If it is true

I am guessing he has been charged with assault as he should be.

[840high]

86. Story on DailyMail

[tonedevil]

21. That is a sad thing...

I am a fan of Mr. Pierce and I know he has done a lot of good work for New Orleans after Katrina. It goes to something I have long held people who are famous for entertaining performance should not be counted on for political opinions.

[cui bono]

23. After reading the headline of your OP I was going to make a joke

about finding out what bravenak's been up to lately, but damn, this guy physically assaulted a woman because she supports Bernie??? That's messed up.

.

[SecularMotion]

24. I understand it's tempting

but a smack in the head will not help Sanders supporters.

[demmiblue]

40. Wow, some of y'all are sick.

A man physically attacks a woman and this is the response?!

I hope some Hillary supporters call you out.

[Lazy Daisy]

52. You hear those crickets?

yep. We're all sexist, racist, blah blah blah. But a man puts his hands on a woman and you hear crickets......Maybe if I support Hillary I can go beat the snot out of someone too.

[Fawke Em]

59. Thanks for proving the thread's point.

[JonLeibowitz]

84. Wow................................................ ^^^ This post is shameful.

[moriah]

88. This would be far more accurate, and maybe even close to appropriate, if...

.... it'd been a Trump supporter they lost their cool with. Maybe even funny in a dark humor sort of way. Of course, in that case it's because it'd take far more than a smack upside the head to cure Trump supporters of the reasons they are supporting him. Either way, condeming it is correct.

This is just sad all the way around, though.... not really a laughing matter.

[polly7]

110. SICK.

How fucking disgusting.

[Codeine]

25. Fuuuuuuuck. nt

[hootinholler]

47. Fuckity fuuuck! n/t

[Codeine]

63. Fuckin A. nt

[Doctor_J]

91. Beat me to it

[Starry Messenger]

28. Maybe he was the 100th person to tell him "Sanders marched with King."

[GreatGazoo]

33. so violence against women is a joke to you?

[demmiblue]

39. Apparently so.

That was a gross comment, but to be expected.

[Fawke Em]

60. Thanks for proving the thread's point.

[Prism]

105. She pretty much had it coming, right?

Oh, Starry. Making a funny over violence against women.

I'll need a compass to measure how far you've fallen.

All for Hillary.

BTW, this gets to be what is known as a Nance post. That shitty thing you said once upon a time that you'll get reminded of forever around here. Yay! Accomplished!

[Starry Messenger]

107. You'd know from shitty, famous guy.

[Prism]

108. Now now n/t

[NewImproved Deal]

29. Deranged Pig. Another apologist for the Clinton Machine...

"...went after the woman, grabbing her hair and smacking her in the head."

[scscholar]

32. And did it at a $300 a night hotel!

Imagine what he would have done in a back alley or somewhere else not so nice.

[CreekDog]

30. i noticed you changed the headline to one of your own

because the actual headline wasn't salacious enough for you.

[polly7]

31. How about woman beater, would that be too salacious? nt.

[CreekDog]

35. you're saying this is domestic violence?

[polly7]

65. I'm saying he struck and brutalized a much smaller woman.

You saying they're partners sharing a household? Where the hell did you come up with that.

I know what domestic violence is. Don't use it for bullshit posts.

[CreekDog]

71. Why don't you stop harassing Americans about their vote in this election here?

(after seeing that you have 10 hides in the past 90 days!)

if you want a vote in this election, become a citizen here or legal resident and participate.

stop sniping at us from up there because you think we are making the wrong decision.

comment, absolutely, reason and offer opinions, sure? but this bullshit is harassment.

this is a pattern with you here and it does not belong at DU. i didn't harass or blame Canadians for years of Harper, don't do it to us. i also don't get involved in your inter party politics, giving you a hard time for the people your parties choose as leaders in the Liberal and NDP parties.

so calm down and stop harassing us. THIS IS NOT YOUR VOTE. it does not belong to you, it belongs to us. back off.

and stop this kind of shit, which exemplifies what you've been doing here:

polly7 (20,098 posts) Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #40)
45. I call bullshit.

You're the one who seems so intent on creating division by implying white people have no right to comment on which candidate offers more for black people - some of who may be suffering. They have every right to comment - we all need to look out for one another and lift up each other, no matter who we are - some here seem to believe in that - others, just pretend.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511337565#post45

[polly7]

73. When your gov't stops fucking with the rest of the world 'that aren't Americans'

I'll stop posting (harassing Americans? - lol, whine, whine) here.

Tell your hero not to decimate any more countries and to quit 'harassing'/murdering/mutilating/making orphans and refugees of millions of innocents.

And no ......... I don't want to vote there. Just as I didn't when I first joined and I was perfectly acceptable bitching about Bush's ugly foreign policy.

You back the fuck off!!! Hypocrite much?

eta: Learn what 'domestic violence' is. That claim was just stupid.

[SwampG8r]

96. You ever say that to.sid dithers? Its all he does here.

So you must have sent him this exact.same.message.....amirite?

[Prism]

89. It only counts as beating a woman if you're married, apparently

And these are the self-proclaimed feminists among us.

I almost want to bookmark this thread, so the next time someone complains that declaring the sky is blue is sexist, I can toss down how they think beating a woman is amusing.

[Prism]

104. I don't know if you appreciate this as much as I do

There is a poster who has spent, oh, maybe the past four years, bouncing around here. This is sexist. That is sexist. It's all sexist.

Who just made a joke about how the woman might've had it coming.

So, it's like, oh . . . . yeah. Let's go with that.

I'm just going to scribble in my lil notebook. "Dear self, remind her forever."

[polly7]

111. Some of the comments in this thread are absolutely disgusting.

So much for 'caring' about women. That's the way it's been here though for years .... only 'certain' women count.

[jack_krass]

115. Stop your senationalizing salatiousness. This fine man was not crazed.

This was a simple matter of continuation of politics by other, slightly less than nonphysical means, could happen to anyone. Nothing to see here, oh ya and don't forget: ITS HER TURN!

[Cheese Sandwich]

34. Didn't really change the headline

Aggregated content from two different sources and created a new headline to express my personal feelings.

[CreekDog]

37. You've had 12 hides in 3 months here? Sounds like you have a problem.

[Cheese Sandwich]

38. Yeah but look at what they were though. All good quality stuff. The juries are rigged

[CreekDog]

41. You say "juries are rigged", but not everyone on the juries voted against you

here are your last hides from newest to oldest:

6-1
4-3
4-3
5-2
4-3
4-3

So you're saying the juries are rigged? So the jurors who voted to uphold your post are rigged?

[Cheese Sandwich]

42. No but the juries are rigged behind the scenes. The site owners are removing people

from jury eligibility silently behind the scenes without any notification, based on no evidence.

Rigged.

[CreekDog]

43. So you think there's a conspiracy against your hidden posts

rather than the posts being stupid and/or offensive?

[Cheese Sandwich]

46. Some of them I deserved it. Some probably not. Who cares. We've got people with like 20 hidden posts

Woopdedingdong. The juries are still rigged though. It's not a conspiracy. The owner admitted that they are selectively removing people from jury eligibility based on their own whims without any notice or evidence.

[cherokeeprogressive]

45. I was removed from jury duty. One hide and an 80% chance of serving...

I was on three or four juries every single day. Then, nothing. So I changed my preference to NO. Fuck 'em.

[Cheese Sandwich]

48. Wow it's worse if you're a paying subscriber.

For people getting it for free it just makes the site suck but for people who actually paid something it's like they aren't getting exactly what they thought they would, because one of the community aspects has been stripped away.

Oh well. It's too bad I guess.

[Blue_In_AK]

50. Me, too.

I have no hides and 100 % chance of serving but haven't been called for weeks.

[Blue_In_AK]

49. I haven't been called for jury duty in weeks

after being called daily for several months. I think it's because I finally got fed up and put about 75 people on ignore. My understanding is you don't get called for jury duty on the posts of people you've ignored.

[demmiblue]

54. Strange, I have @ 50 on ignore with a 60% chance of being called for jury duty...

I get summoned almost daily.

[Blue_In_AK]

61. Oh, that IS strange

especially since we're both Bernie people. I did make a comment here once, maybe in ATA, about why I was being called so often. Maybe they dropped me. Or maybe I wasn't hiding enough posts, because I seldom did, usually explaining that my policy was not to hide posts unless someone was deliberately bullying another. I never even hid any of Bravenak's posts. LOL.

[JTFrog]

97. For fuck's sake, it's all a big conspiracty isn't it? Here is your notification:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10135098

The short-term changes

We still believe that the vast majority of DU members are perfectly capable of participating in a productive way, and serving on juries in a non-partisan way. But given the pervasively negative tone of discussions here, we think it would be wise to provide a greater incentive for people to do so. Going forward if we see anyone voting to leave the worst-of-the-worst posts, or voting in a nakedly partisan fashion to hide posts which are clearly legitimate, then we will remove that person's ability to serve on juries. (We are not going to provide any notification to members who lose their jury privileges, because under the messed-up values of primary season we think many of you would see it as some kind of badge of honor.)

So, please, do the right thing when serving and let's clean this place up a bit.

We've also decided to try removing the current "five hides and you're out" restriction, mainly because we suspect that members would be more likely to vote to hide bad behavior if they didn't feel like one of their friends might get canned over it. So while members can still be flagged for review for getting posts hidden too quickly, there's no more five-hide suspension. And anyone who is currently suspended for getting five hides is able to post again as of now. We reserve the right to change this decision if it seems like it's having the opposite effect to what was intended.

And also we are not going to feature discussion threads on the DU homepage if they are posted in the General Discussion: Primaries forum, or in either of the two primary candidate supporters' groups. We are no longer interested in featuring the most divisive content on the front page of this website.

The only people being removed are those that allow disgusting shit to stand and those who make disgusting comments. Something to think about eh?

[Cheese Sandwich]

103. You don't you even know who's being removed. You're just taking the owners' word for it.

[Adrahil]

57. Lol... "Quality"....

Dear gawd, I cannot wait for this primary to be over.

[CreekDog]

87. yeah, the juries are very stacked against the people who offend other people

imagine that, what a conspiracy.

[jillan]

55. It's way past time Hillary supporters step down from their "Holier than thou" throne.

There has been a lot of ugliness coming from her supporters lately, including last nite in Nevada when a Hillary supporter, a man, shouted "you fucking bitch" at a young woman that was a Bernie supporter.

I know it comes from both sides, but enough with always trying to point fingers at Bernie supporters.

[grasswire]

67. you know what?

The ones who waste their time flacking here have ZERO influence on anyone, except to perhaps drive more people to be independents or more firmly toward Bernie.

Got to wonder what they think the value is of their time here.

[CreekDog]

72. Just because you can't understand why a Hillary supporter would spend their time here

doesn't mean that there isn't a good reason for doing so.

you see, just because you can't think of something, doesn't mean that someone else can't.

don't overestimate your intelligence, especially if you have to underestimate the intelligence of others to do so.

[northernsouthern]

78. The HRC camp will ignore this...

And just keep posting about the Bernie people using sidewalk chalk in NV after they were cheated at the convention...and how the Bernie fans are violent punks.

[AgerolanAmerican]

81. just a physical version

of what we see Hillary fans do on this board every day

they can't talk rationally or reasonably so they bully others instead

[B Calm]

92. Violent Authoritarian is so right-wing.

[Cosmic Kitten]

93. Another despicable Hill supporter

Their AUTHORITARIAN leanings
are becoming clearer every day.

Just wait to see how ugly
Camp Weather vane gets at
the convention

[Vattel]

94. Typical Hillary supporter. Lol. Just kidding. I am not as dishonest or deluded

as Hillary supporters who push the Bernie Bro nonsense.

[Beacool]

99. Disingenuous headline. You should have posted the original one.

As for this fight, he shouldn't have touched the woman. Although, I would like to know what really went down. The TMZ article doesn't give many details.

[Bluenorthwest]

113. The headline should have said 'Wealthy, powerful male Hillary supporter' instead of crazed.

I agree with you. We know he's rich, connected and a man who got arrested for assault on a woman. He's pushing apologies, dropping out of events.

I think the main element to this on DU is that he's not being discussed by Camp Clinton at all, with all the affectation of caring about such things, all the holding Bernie responsible for every Tweet some Hillary supporter claims came from a Bernie supporter. Here you have Pierce doing this and your side is concerned with the fairness of the headlines about him, wanting to be all moderate about the reaction. This is very different and highly hypocritical behavior.

[coco77]

112. Recomended..