New Pre-Stomping Video: Does It Change Things?
A video from another angle has been released from the Rand Paul rally in Kentucky, showing moveon.org activist Lauren Valle trying to approach Paul several times. Here it is:
Does this change the perception of the incident? In one way, it does; it makes it understandable that people tried to restrain her. It could possibly even justify wrestling her to the ground; I don’t think so myself, but I see how the point could be argued.
But nothing justifies the head-stomping; Valle was curled up in a fetal position and wasn’t going anywhere, and Rand Paul was long gone. At that point it became an assault.