Will this make national news too? SEIU members found not guilty of assault on Tea Partier

[ck4829]

Almost two years after the national uproar over health care reform, a jury has acquitted two labor union activists accused of assaulting a man selling conservative buttons outside a Cogressman Russ Carnahan town hall forum.

Service Employees International Union members Elston McCowan and Perry Molens had been accused of misdemeanor assault in the August, 2009 tussle with button salesman Kenneth Gladney. The fight caught national attention at a time when there was rampant speculation the union had been dispatched to tamp down opposition to President Obama’s health care reform.

McCowan and Molens were represented by high-profile defense attorney Paul D’ Agrosa, whose legal fees, McCowan said, were paid by the union. During his closing argument, D’ Agrosa questioned whether Gladney was wearing a neck brace to the trial for sympathy (Yes, he was wearing a neck brace two years after the incident happened), saying it reminded him of a “Brady Bunch” episode.

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/07/12/acquittal-in-town-hall-assault-case/

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. The only reason I knew about it is from a blogger I follow

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1477125

That horrible video was all over the place 2 years ago. But now - silence.

Our media sucks.

[gratuitous]

2. Misdemeanor assault, and Gladney is wearing a neck brace two years later?

I can't believe we lose to these idiots.

[MineralMan]

3. No, it won't make national news.

Too long after the incident, which also was mainly on the web and not in the national news. Right now, there are much larger issues dominating the national news. It's too much to expect this to be anything other than a local story.

[krispos42]

4. k&r n/t