Rep. Don Young (R-AK) apologized Thursday for grabbing the arm of a congressional staffer outside a GOP meeting.
NBC News producer Frank Thorp V, who witnessed the confrontation, wrote on Twitter that a congressional staffer tried to direct Young to enter an in-progress GOP meeting through a side door. Young “forcefully grabbed” the staffer’s arm, then walked past him and through the front door into the meeting. The staffer “was holding his arm like it hurt,” Thorp wrote.
Thorp also posted a short video of the encounter:
Rep Don Young (R-AK) grabs staffer’s arm for trying to stop him from entering in-progress GOP mtg through f… https://t.co/bHEfX87Frh
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) July 31, 2014
Young said he was “caught off guard” by the staffer but acknowledged that his reaction wasn’t appropriate.
“While returning to the GOP conference meeting to discuss the ongoing situation on our southern border, I was caught off guard by an unidentified individual who was physically blocking me from reentering the room,” Young said in a statement, as quoted by Roll Call. “Regardless, my reaction was wrong and I should have never placed my hands on the young man.”
It wouldn’t be the first time Young brushed off directions. Earlier this month he barged through a police line to enter the U.S. Capitol, which had been closed off for an asbestos cleanup.
That’s what you get when you fuck with the Force.
Too much early morning guzzling of cheap gin, will make a person act like that!
a quick taser to the nads might help.
When will we finally address conservative-on-conservative crime?
I hate these tin-pot John Wayne wannabes. If he weren’t a congressman (and the staffer weren’t on salary), Young would be on his ass.