LARGO, Fla. – An argument over a MAGA hat turned bodily on Tuesday and ended with a lady in handcuffs.
The backstory:
In response to an arrest affidavit, Laura Elizabeth Garrett, 33, was at Northeast Park and Paw Place situated at 4630 East Bay Drive in Largo round 5:30 p.m. when she received into an argument with a 72-year-old man carrying a MAGA hat.
Through the altercation, paperwork present that the sufferer informed investigators that Garrett hit him on the again of the pinnacle and shoulder space with a can she was holding earlier than she jumped a fence and walked away.
In response to the arrest report, Garrett admitted to approaching the sufferer and questioning him about why he would help President Trump earlier than she poured the contents of a can on his head. Nevertheless, she denied hitting the sufferer with the can.
Laura Garrett mugshot courtesy of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Dig deeper:
The doc goes on to state that whereas Garrett was positioned in handcuffs, she deliberately dropped her full physique weight to the bottom.
Largo cops, in keeping with the doc, tried to escort Garrett to the entrance of the park the place patrol autos had been situated, and that’s when she wrapped each of her legs round an officer, inflicting him to fall to the bottom and bruise his knee.
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Police say she continued kicking and pulling away from officers.
Garrett has been charged with battery on an individual 65 years outdated or older, battery on a regulation enforcement officer and obstructing or resisting an officer with out violence.
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