{"id":69892,"date":"2021-06-19T17:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69892"},"modified":"2021-06-19T17:56:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T21:56:06","slug":"was-governor-newsom-really-assaulted-in-oakland-or-was-this-a-fake-sympathy-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69892","title":{"rendered":"Was Governor Newsom really assaulted in Oakland or was this a fake sympathy attack?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>California Governor Assaulted By Man During Visit To Oakland<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Zachary Stieber<br \/>\nThe Epoch Times<\/p>\n<p>California Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom<\/a>\u00a0on Friday was assaulted as he visited a pizza parlor in Oakland.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cThis morning, the Governor was approached by an aggressive individual. Members of the Governor\u2019s security detail removed the Governor from the situation and the individual was arrested by CHP officers,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> the California Highway Patrol, which helps protect the governor, said in a statement to news outlets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The man hurled a water bottle at Newsom, who was in the area to tour several small businesses, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3LEMG9EIs3Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photographs showed the suspect, identified as Serge Emanuel Benoit Chaumette Jr., being arrested on Washington Street after the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bitcentral_2.0-653b59aad8ad736746adb09a9f4f66a-356702-1.jpg?itok=08mL6MD5\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bitcentral_2.0-653b59aad8ad736746adb09a9f4f66a-356702-1.jpg?itok=08mL6MD5\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/bitcentral_2.0-653b59aad8ad736746adb09a9f4f66a-356702-1.jpg?itok=08mL6MD5\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a7113d31-a2ec-47e2-b65e-fb5535ed1e82\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man\u00a0was booked on assault of a public official and resisting an officer charges. He was being held on $35,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who identified herself as the suspect\u2019s sister told The Associated Press that he is\u00a0<strong>homeless and has severe mental issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She said the\u00a0<strong>alleged crimes he committed were\u00a0\u201cconsistent with his past behavior.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Newsom appeared unharmed and joked with reporters that\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cdifferent people have different ways of saying hello,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the East Bay Times reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/gavin-newsom-700x420.jpg?itok=r_sK-hKz\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/gavin-newsom-700x420.jpg?itok=r_sK-hKz\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/gavin-newsom-700x420.jpg?itok=r_sK-hKz\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"57479eb1-faeb-4bcb-830b-5b749064b92a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newsom was in Oakland to visit Beastmode Barbershop and Graffiti Pizza. The visit was meant to promote small businesses as they strive to recover from the harsh rules imposed by the governor during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/california-governor-assaulted-man-during-visit-oakland\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/california-governor-assaulted-man-during-visit-oakland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Assaulted By Man During Visit To Oakland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}