US Rep. Nancy Mace mentioned one in all her supporters was assaulted Monday by a volunteer for Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, one in all her opponents in South Carolina’s Republican major, as they protested exterior an Evette occasion Monday.
The Mace supporter had been talking by a megaphone when Blake Kirsch ripped the megaphone from his palms and gave it to an officer on scene, in accordance with a report from the Greer Police Department obtained by NCS.
The report states the officer advised Kirsch to return the megaphone and the opposite man demanded Kirsch be charged for touching him. In video circulated by the Mace marketing campaign, a person could be seen grabbing the megaphone from the protester’s palms.
Kirsch was arrested and charged with assault and battery in the third diploma, in accordance with the Greenville County thirteenth Judicial Circuit Public Index. No lawyer is listed at the moment.
Mace additionally held a press convention Tuesday morning the place she known as Evette a “disgrace” and known as for the Trump-endorsed candidate to drop out of the race.
“Our team is deeply disappointed that this occurred. We support free speech and do not in any way condone violence. He is not, and has never been, employed by the Evette campaign and he is no longer a member of our finance committee,” Megan Finnern, Evette’s marketing campaign supervisor, mentioned in an announcement to NCS. Finnern added that Kirsch voluntarily resigned from his place as an unpaid member of the finance committee.
NCS’s Maureen Chowdhury contributed to this report.