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We must draw the straight lines that connect violent political rhetoric and violent acts, the Pelosi assailant’s Facebook page looks identical to the Facebook pages of Trump, [Georgia Rep. Marjorie] Taylor Greene, and [Colorado Rep. Lauren] Boebert. All three of them have glorified violence and [David] Depape acted on it. – Eric Swalwell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Earlier this morning, Paul Pelosi was attacked at home by an assailant who acted with force, and threatened his life while demanding to see the Speaker, mr. Pelosi was admitted to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospitalwhere he underwent successful surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. His doctors expect a full recovery. – Drew Hammill	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Thank God Speaker Pelosi’s husband Paul is safe after being attacked in their home by an assailant, while the motive is still unknown we know where this kind of violence is sanctioned and modeled. – Jackie Speier	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Restorative justice enables the assailant and does not protect the victim, so expecting students to sit down with someone and listen to why that other student feels the need to attack them and assault them is unacceptable. – Mona Davids	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, and we pray that law enforcement authorities are able to swiftly free the hostages and bring them to safety, this assailant has nothing to do with Dr. Aafia, her family, or the global campaign to get justice for Dr. Aafia. We want the assailant to know that his actions are wicked and directly undermine those of us who are seeking justice for Dr. Aafia. – John Floyd	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was huge, any homicide investigator will tell you that one of the first things is knowing your victim, understanding the victim. In a majority of homicide investigations, the victim had known their assailant. It’s not unusual. So for us to be able to finally identify the victim months later allowed us to get the ball rolling on the investigation. We went full steam ahead at that point. – Major Scott Champagne	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today’s majority decision regarding Bill Cosby is not only disappointing but of concern in that it may discourage those who seek justice for sexual assault in the criminal justice system from reporting or participating in the prosecution of the assailant or may force a victim to choose between filing either a criminal or civil action. – Andrea Constand	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our intelligence and law enforcement apparatuses require accuracy, precision, and justice. I’m encouraged that the FBI has updated its classification of that nearly catastrophic event to reflect the actual motives of the assailant, and I commend Director Wray for his oversight of that correction, i will continue to work with the Bureau toward investigating what led to the original 'suicide by cop' determination. – Brad Wenstrup	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Mr. Price resisted the effects of the taser and attempted to take it away from officer Lucas, officer Lucas only discharged his weapon in accordance w/ Texas law when he was confronted with an aggressive assailant who was attempting to take his taser. – Lucas Dallas-based attorney	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The world is speaking right now, city Council members're saying we don't want a system of policing that puts targets on the backs of Black people especially, but also is a regular assailant and traumatizer of our entire community. – Melina Abdullah	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger, which I can tell you from personal experience it is, then this is the moment when we are beginning to wrestle it to the floor. – Boris Johnson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm confident that [ these videos ] are going to show that El Hefe was involved in this, that they knew who this individual was and throughout that evening, this assailant and suspect was having conversations and was friendly with the bar staff and in fact knew the bar staff. – John Chwarzynski	Found on CNN 4 years ago
A pipe device was found in his pocket with an attached clear plastic baggie that has been determined to contain cocaine, and the assailant's cavity blood sample was found to contain cocaine, alprazolam and ethanol. – Montgomery County Coroner Kent Harshbarger	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We get better about securing them because everything we're hearing is that entry was secure, that there was a strong presence, an assailant like this will find another way in. – Juliette Kayyem	Found on CNN 4 years ago
But for his work, the assailant may not have been disarmed, he's an athletically built young man, and he took the fight to the assailant. Unfortunately he had to give his life to do so. – Kerr Putney	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He's an athletically built young man, and he took the fight to the assailant. Unfortunately he had to give his life to do so, he took the assailant off his feet. – Kerr Putney	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal got out of a car, a young man shot Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal. The assailant has been apprehended. – Imran Kishwar	Found on CNN 5 years ago
As he got out of a car, a young man shot him. The assailant has been apprehended. – Imran Kishwar	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The holes in our law are massive, these victims face the real possibility that their assailant would return to their same high school. I can’t imagine the pain and fear these victims and their families went through. The possibility of having to share space with the person who assaulted them is unconscionable. – Lana Theis	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
You certainly would like to make it a little harder for that assailant to have also had a gun. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The assailant was shot by forces on the site, resulting in his death. – The Israeli military	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When Chris hit the ground, he told him it was our son’s birthday yesterday. He took a couple more rounds after that, the assailant was not able to make it into the classroom, because Chris stopped him. – Jamie Skinner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. – August Strindberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago

We must draw the straight lines that connect violent political rhetoric and violent acts, the Pelosi assailant’s Facebook page looks identical to the Facebook pages of Trump, [Georgia Rep. Marjorie] Taylor Greene, and [Colorado Rep. Lauren] Boebert. All three of them have glorified violence and [David] Depape acted on it.

– Eric Swalwell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Earlier this morning, Paul Pelosi was attacked at home by an assailant who acted with force, and threatened his life while demanding to see the Speaker, mr. Pelosi was admitted to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospitalwhere he underwent successful surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. His doctors expect a full recovery.

– Drew Hammill

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Thank God Speaker Pelosi’s husband Paul is safe after being attacked in their home by an assailant, while the motive is still unknown we know where this kind of violence is sanctioned and modeled.

– Jackie Speier

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Restorative justice enables the assailant and does not protect the victim, so expecting students to sit down with someone and listen to why that other student feels the need to attack them and assault them is unacceptable.

– Mona Davids

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, and we pray that law enforcement authorities are able to swiftly free the hostages and bring them to safety, this assailant has nothing to do with Dr. Aafia, her family, or the global campaign to get justice for Dr. Aafia. We want the assailant to know that his actions are wicked and directly undermine those of us who are seeking justice for Dr. Aafia.

– John Floyd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was huge, any homicide investigator will tell you that one of the first things is knowing your victim, understanding the victim. In a majority of homicide investigations, the victim had known their assailant. It’s not unusual. So for us to be able to finally identify the victim months later allowed us to get the ball rolling on the investigation. We went full steam ahead at that point.

– Major Scott Champagne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today’s majority decision regarding Bill Cosby is not only disappointing but of concern in that it may discourage those who seek justice for sexual assault in the criminal justice system from reporting or participating in the prosecution of the assailant or may force a victim to choose between filing either a criminal or civil action.

– Andrea Constand

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our intelligence and law enforcement apparatuses require accuracy, precision, and justice. I’m encouraged that the FBI has updated its classification of that nearly catastrophic event to reflect the actual motives of the assailant, and I commend Director Wray for his oversight of that correction, i will continue to work with the Bureau toward investigating what led to the original 'suicide by cop' determination.

– Brad Wenstrup

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mr. Price resisted the effects of the taser and attempted to take it away from officer Lucas, officer Lucas only discharged his weapon in accordance w/ Texas law when he was confronted with an aggressive assailant who was attempting to take his taser.

– Lucas Dallas-based attorney

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The world is speaking right now, city Council members're saying we don't want a system of policing that puts targets on the backs of Black people especially, but also is a regular assailant and traumatizer of our entire community.

– Melina Abdullah

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger, which I can tell you from personal experience it is, then this is the moment when we are beginning to wrestle it to the floor.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm confident that [ these videos ] are going to show that El Hefe was involved in this, that they knew who this individual was and throughout that evening, this assailant and suspect was having conversations and was friendly with the bar staff and in fact knew the bar staff.

– John Chwarzynski

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A pipe device was found in his pocket with an attached clear plastic baggie that has been determined to contain cocaine, and the assailant's cavity blood sample was found to contain cocaine, alprazolam and ethanol.

– Montgomery County Coroner Kent Harshbarger

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We get better about securing them because everything we're hearing is that entry was secure, that there was a strong presence, an assailant like this will find another way in.

– Juliette Kayyem

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But for his work, the assailant may not have been disarmed, he's an athletically built young man, and he took the fight to the assailant. Unfortunately he had to give his life to do so.

– Kerr Putney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He's an athletically built young man, and he took the fight to the assailant. Unfortunately he had to give his life to do so, he took the assailant off his feet.

– Kerr Putney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal got out of a car, a young man shot Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal. The assailant has been apprehended.

– Imran Kishwar

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As he got out of a car, a young man shot him. The assailant has been apprehended.

– Imran Kishwar

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The holes in our law are massive, these victims face the real possibility that their assailant would return to their same high school. I can’t imagine the pain and fear these victims and their families went through. The possibility of having to share space with the person who assaulted them is unconscionable.

– Lana Theis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You certainly would like to make it a little harder for that assailant to have also had a gun.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The assailant was shot by forces on the site, resulting in his death.

– The Israeli military

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When Chris hit the ground, he told him it was our son’s birthday yesterday. He took a couple more rounds after that, the assailant was not able to make it into the classroom, because Chris stopped him.

– Jamie Skinner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

– August Strindberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

– Eric Hoffer

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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