Montana Veteran attacked teen and blamed Trump?

Army veteran pleads not guilty in assault on teen who failed to remove hat during anthem

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He Attacked a Teen He Felt Disrespected the National Anthem. His Lawyer Says He 'Believed He Was Doing What President Trump Wanted'

From TIME

Police: Montana man assaults boy who kept hat on during anthem

ABC 13 News
by Ida Domingo
August 8th 2019

Officials say the child had blood coming from his ears, a concussion and a fractured skull...

SUPERIOR, Mont. (WSET) -- Police have charged a man with assault after a witness said he threw a 13-year-old boy to the ground because the boy didn't remove his hat during the national anthem at a rodeo.

CNN reports that Curt James Brockway, 39, was arrested and charged with felony assault on a minor, according to an affidavit filed in district court in Mineral County on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

The incident happened on Saturday, Aug. 3 at the Mineral County Fairgrounds in the town of Superior after the boy responded rudely when the man asked him to take his hat off, according to court documents.

Brockway told police the boy was wearing a hat as the National Anthem began, and he asked him to remove it because it was disrespectful to wear during the anthem, but the boy responded by saying "f*** you," according to the affidavit.

Brockway said he then grabbed the boy by his throat, lifted him into the air, before slamming the boy into the ground, the affidavit said.

Witnesses of the alleged incident confirmed most of Brockway's description of events, but one woman said she did not hear him ask the boy to take off his hat, according to records.

Officials say the child had blood coming from his ears, a concussion and a fractured skull,

The child's mother, Megan Keeler, told CNN affiliate KPAX that she received a phone call shortly after dropping off her son at the fairgrounds that he was being taken to a local hospital.
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Female Soldiers Attacked Over Parking?

PREGNANT SOLDIER, HER SON YELLS HOMOPHOBIC SLURS 
KMIR News 
Sara Sanchez 
APRIL 16, 2018 

Cell phone video of a woman appearing to lunge and swing at two female soldiers in a Georgia restaurant has gone viral. The video surfaced on Instagram.

According to the local Sheriff’s Office, it all started over a parking space. Bibb County Sheriff’s investigators say it happened on Saturday at a Cheddar’s Restaurant in Macon, Georgia. The video shows a blonde woman who has been identified as 72-year-old Judy Tucker.

According to NBC affiliate WMGT, the soldiers, Treasure Sharpe and Stephanie Mitchell, told deputies Tucker’s son originally confronted them outside the restaurant and told them they need to learn how to park. A police report claims the son used homophobic slurs towards the woman. WMGT says Mitchell then tried to calm the son down. read more here

Memphis VA Removed Employee--Or Not?

VA Removing Employee Arrested for Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon 
VA News Release

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it is taking immediate steps to propose the termination of a Memphis VA Medical Center employee arrested over the weekend for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal impersonation of a police officer.

Upon learning of the employee’s arrest, VA Press Secretary Curt Cashour said, “This behavior is not in line with the norms and values of the VA, and as a result the employee has been suspended from all duties. VA has initiated the process for removal from employment.

“Secretary Shulkin has made clear that VA will hold employees accountable when they fail to live up to the high standards taxpayers expect from us. And that’s exactly what we’re doing in this case.”

Memphis woman back working at VA after being charged with aggravated assault

FOX 13 News

Marius Payton

September 20, 2017

A woman charged with aggravated assault is back at work tonight and guess who's paying her salary? You the taxpayer.

Linda Turner was charged with 2 counts of aggravated assault and criminal impersonation after  police said she pulled a gun on a grandmother and her 2-year-old granddaughter. 

FOX13 has been digging into this story and found that Turner works at a facility that has had its issues here in Memphis, that's the VA Medical Center.

She has been employed at the VA Medical Center since 1998, but this weekend, police said she pulled a loaded gun on a grandmother who was walking her two-year-old grand-daughter across a busy street.

Wednesday, Turner was back at work at a facility struggling to clean up its image, but there is a difference of opinions on how the aggravated assault issue should be handled.

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Man Order into Drug Treatment After Attacking Veterans at VFW

Mason VFW hall attacker ordered to get drug treatment, mental health check 
Zachariah Purcell pleaded guilty to 2 charges
WCPO News
Staff
May 13, 2015

MASON, Ohio -- A Tennessee man who pleaded guilty to attacking two members at a Mason Veterans of Foreign Wars hall was ordered Wednesday to undergo drug treatment, spend time on house arrest and get a mental health check.

Zachariah Purcell, 26, of Morristown, Tennessee, was arrested Jan. 24, 2015. He pleaded guilty March 24 to one count of aggravated assault and one count of assault.

Police said Purcell broke a pool cue over Larry Kennedy's head and hit a woman in the face.

"You don't get in no fights in a place like that," Kennedy said. But when he saw his friend trying to get Purcell to leave, Kennedy couldn't just sit in the corner.

"I just kind of held him down and next thing I know he said, 'I've had enough. Let me up,'" said Kennedy.

"And I let him up and that's when he hit me with a pool stick." read more here

Vietnam veteran beaten at gas station by thug on run for 10 years

Suspect in beating of Vietnam veteran at gas station had been a wanted man for 10 years
WXYZ News
Kimberly Craig
September 27, 2013

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Cortez Hawkins, suspected in Monday's beating of a Vietnam veteran, has been a wanted man and flying under the radar for a decade, according to court records.

The beating was caught on surveillance cameras at the BP Gas station located on Seven Mile near I-75.

On Friday, Hawkins, 32, was arraigned on two counts of Assault with Intent to Do Great Bodily Harm.

When Hawkins appeared in court, it was revealed that he had skipped out on a 2003 criminal case with charges that included Felony Firearm and Carrying a Concealed Weapon.

Two other men are also facing similar charges in connection with the beating of the 64-year-old veteran and his 58-year-old friend.
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Marine speaks out after being beaten for saving 14 year old boy in Florida

UPDATE Video from the beating
Marine who was beaten while saving teen says it was 'in the line of duty'
ABC News
Linzie Janis
09/07/2013

A Marine who was brutally beaten while trying to save a teen who was being bullied said it was all in the line of duty and said he would do it again if duty calls.

“You know doing the right thing is always the right thing,” Wen Jones, 43, told ABC News in an interview .

Jones is speaking out for the first time about the brutal beat-down caught on camera back in May.

Jones’ instinct to protect kicked into overdrive when he stumbled upon three men bullying 14-year-old Zion Wright on Florida’s Juno Beach.
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Assault sends MOH Dakota Meyer to Kentucky hospital

MoH recipient Meyer injured in altercation
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Dec 13, 2012

COLUMBIA, Ky. — Kentucky State Police are investigating an alleged assault on Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Meyer was involved in the altercation over the weekend at a venue near Columbia.

WYMT-TV reports Meyer was injured badly enough that he was treated at a local hospital and released.
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