Tuesday, March 1, 2016

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ASSAULT A SECRET SERVICE AGENT?After multiple clips of a Time magazine photographer scuffling with a United States Secret Service agent at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Radford, Virginia, appeared online on Monday, many have wondered what exactly happens legally after such an encounter with a Secret Service agent.

In the clips, photographer Christopher Morris appears to have left the designated press area at the rally, and the Secret Service agent, whom the agency has not publicly identified, tells Morris to “get in the pen.” At that moment, their bodies appear to press up against each other. Morris replies with an expletive, and the agent appears to grab him by the neck and slam him down on top of a table and then the ground. Morris then kicks at the agent. When he stands up, he tells someone nearby that the agent had grabbed him by the neck. He then grabs the agent’s neck—which he later said was to demonstrate how the agent had grabbed him. Law enforcement then escorts Morris away.
In a statement released Monday, Time acknowledged that Morris left the press zone and swore at the agent, and said he was “thrown to the ground in a choke hold.” The publication also said Morris “kicked at the agent” and “briefly put his hand on the agent’s neck,” which Morris said was “to demonstrate the choke hold he had just experienced.” The publication said “local law enforcement briefly detained” Morris.

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