A wild brawl broke out at a Democrat Farmer Labor (DFL) Party endorsing convention in Minnesota on Saturday when dozens of supporters of rival candidates clashed on stage. The confrontation erupted as backers of Minneapolis City Council member, Pakistani Muslim Aisha Chughtai, took to the stage sending supporters of her challenger, Somali Muslim Nasri Warsame, into a rage.
Daily Mail (h/t Nita) The convention for the Minneapolis Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) Party’s Ward 10 ended with at least one person hospitalized, another needing medical attention at the scene and no endorsement. ‘This is embarrassing,’ shouted convention chair Sam Doten as the ugly scenes escalated. ‘We are shutting this down – this is no longer safe.’
In the clip, supporters of candidate Nasri Warsame appear to go onto the stage and start shouting and slamming tables while organizers try to regain control. The clip also shows a disturbance in the crowd at the convention with people seeming to shove other attendees.
Local party leaders condemned the violence which was spurred when supporters of Warsame began shouting and jeering at Chughtai backers. A man waving a Warsame sign was the first to rush the stage, before several others joined him, shouting and banging on tables – bringing proceedings to a halt.
The Minneapolis Police Department said it responded to reports of people fighting. A man in his 30s was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and paramedics treated a woman in her 40s at the scene, according to CBS News.
In a Facebook post after the clashes, Warsame said his campaign manager was ‘assaulted by one of the other campaign staff member, and he’s now being transported to hospital by an ambulance.’
In a statement, Chughtai called the incident “horrifying, unacceptable and indicative of the growing threat to progressive, pro-people candidates and movement leaders.” She also claimed Warsame supporters “intimidated delegates and alternates, harassed and threatened DFL volunteers, and assaulted me and my supporters.”
“Over a dozen of our supporters and DFL volunteers were physically assaulted that we know of right now; there are likely more who haven’t gotten in touch with us yet. The Warsame campaign punched multiple women of color on our campaign team, and shoved and harassed LGBTQIA2S+ delegates and supporters,” Chughtai said.
“They also repeatedly attempted to get hold of the camera of a movement photographer who had been given an All Access Pass by the DFL to document the Convention – attacking those who are documenting democracy just because they support or work for a certain candidate is unacceptable.”
Chughtai said the convention was shut down after people charged the stage.
Runner7500 says
Violence is their democratic way to win.
Az gal says
Brawling is all they know. Muslums can’t be civilized or Democratic. Thugs rule.
Hartmut says
If you think that’s bad then you haven’t seen Erdogan’s Turks going on a rampage in Germany or any other western European country.
canuckguynbgmailcom says
I can’t imagine the GOP have this sort of problem.
BareNakedIslam says
Nope. The very few Muslim candidates I’ve seen who are Republicans are like-minded America-loving conservatives.
edletkiewicz says
Build a wall around Minnesota and give them all the guns they want.
xenonman says
Shiiites vs. Sunnis? They hate each other about as much as both hate Jews!
BareNakedIslam says
They are both mainly Sunnis.
Kathleen Woods says
What the Hell country are we in ? Let them kill each other ;a few down and a gazillion to go. Sucks to be us thanks to demacraps & their globalist sugar daddies GOD help us.