Slam a black man to the ground and call him a n-bomb before putting the boots to him? In the STL, that’s called a “misdemeanor:”

Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations.

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Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman, 30, of University City, was charged with interfering with a police officer. The charges allege that he failed to obey repeated commands “to leave the site of an ongoing disturbance.”

Elston McCowan, 47, of St. Louis, and Perry Molens, 50, of De Soto, each were charged with assaulting a person and interfering with police. They are accused of scuffling with and injuring Kenneth Gladney in a clash of opinions over the Democrats’ universal health care proposals.

Javonne Spitz, 51, of O’Fallon, Mo., and Brian Matthews, 34, of Glendale, also were charged with interfering with an officer. Cheryl Johner, 55, of Arnold, was charged with assaulting a person and destruction of property for allegedly pushing another woman and breaking her cell phone.

Scuffling?

Behold, video:

You can see a particularly large purple people eater grab Gladney from behind and throw him to the ground. Had Gladney been a liberal, that would be a hate crime. Instead, it’s a misdemeanor.

According to Jim Hoft, Gladney wasn’t even protesting. He was a vendor.

This happened on August 6. Why did it take this long to get charges filed? John at Powerline says the defendents should feel glad they aren’t Navy SEALs:

It occurs to me that if these union thugs had been Navy SEALS apprehending a terrorist mass murderer of Americans, rather than agents of the Democratic Party trying to suppress expression of a political view with which the Democratic Party disagrees, they would have been treated far more harshly. Why do you think that is?

So, just to recap, leftist protestors outside a leftist congressman’s event, in a city governed by a Democrat assault a black man and it takes this long before charges are filed against them. And then they are filed the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

It stretches my ability to give them the benefit of the doubt to think this was anything but politically timed. Obviously they wanted to have minimal political impact so they did this on a day when most people would be busy, followed by a holiday.

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