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Post by lakhota on May 21, 2011 22:38:54 GMT -5
Maine GOP Lawmaker Allegedly Threatens To Shoot Photographer In Dunkin Donuts Parking Lot Republican state representative Frederick Ladd Wintle is in custody today after allegedly threatening to shoot a photographer with the Maine Morning Sentinel in the parking lot of a Dunkin Donuts in Waterville. The representative from Garland, Maine, approached the photographer, Michael Seamans, in a deranged manner and then pointed a gun at him at point-blank range, according to the Portland Press Herald: In what police termed a “bizarre” series of events, Wintle allegedly started talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother’s drug dealer. News reports made no mention of drugs involved in the infant’s death and did not reveal the family. He then pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his pants’ waistband and pointed it at Seamans in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, located on Kennedy Memorial Drive. Police confirmed that Seamans was “an innocent bystander” who did nothing to provoke Wintle. The two men reportedly had never met before. Wintle seems to be something of an amateur historian, and has “penned a series of stories about his miss-spent youth and family, faith, and heritage.” In what appears to be Wintle’s website promoting his writing, his biography suggests an interest in hunting, saying he “was born on opening day of deer hunting season October 21, 1952.” thinkprogress.org/2011/05/21/maine-gop-lawmaker-threatens-to-shoot-photographer-in-dunkin-donuts-parking-lot/
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Post by lakhota on May 21, 2011 22:39:38 GMT -5
I pray to Gawd that all this rightie violence will soon come to an end.
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