Fox News host and National Review Online contributor Katherine Timpf was attacked as she was preparing to speak at a campaign event for Ben Kissel in Brooklyn Monday night:
I'm at Union Pool in BK, about to speak at my friend @BenKissel's campaign event, a guy walks in, dumps an entire bottle of water on me …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
It looks as if the attack was premeditated with Timpf clearly the target:
… walks in, clearly here because he knows I'm here, dumps an entire 1.5 liter bottle of water on me, first on my head and then I turn …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
Unbelievable.
Holy crap. I am so sorry this happened to you. What a punk! https://t.co/2Tg8ZjbvIh
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 25, 2017
Dude that blindsided @KatTimpf is a piece of shit. Want to meet him someday
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) July 25, 2017
That is unacceptable and disgusting. I'm sorry you went thought that. He was a coward and a loser. Stay strong. ??
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/joelcifer/status/889673454051618818
Needless to say, Timpf is quite shaken up by the incident and she gave her thoughts on the political climate today in this series of tweets:
… to look and he splashes it directly on my face and runs out. I'm shocked, I'm stunned. I'm obviously upset. I end up not being able …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
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… to speak because of it. I've never seen a more disgusting insane cruel climate than the one we're in now. Why? What does that …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
accomplish? I guess I wasn't able to speak so that's great and I guess he wins, but we're just randomly assaulting people in public now?
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
That's what we're doing? Verbal assault on Twitter not enough anymore? I've had it. I'm an actual, human person. I have a soul, a family …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… I have feelings. I have opinions, some of which some people may disagree with, but I'm a human being. I'm capable of recognizing …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… that people with whom I disagree have souls and families and are humans, why are there so many people who seem incapable of viewing …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… the world that way? Seriously? I work really hard, I feel as though I never stop working, and to have the end result be to not even …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… be able to exist in the world as a human being without being assaulted verbally and now physically by strangers? Complete strangers?
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… and of course, I still don't know exactly what this lunatic's issue with me was. If he was trying to change my mind about something …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… by dumping his water on my head, the very least he could have done was express what it was specifically that he had an issue with …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… either before or after assaulting me. I'm getting hate from people on all sides of the aisle bc have views that don't fit in with any ..
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… particular party, so I have no way of knowing who or what the hell this guy aligned with and then I realized that it's likely not …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… even about that. It's not about specific issues anymore it's about either blindly supporting or blindly hating particular people …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… and for whatever reason, this guy has decided that I am someone who he hates. Not for views, but as a human. Or not a human, because …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… clearly he doesn't see me as one, but as some sort of an abstract entity that stands for something he hates. It's disgusting, I'm …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… disgusted, and everyone needs to do better than this infantile bullshit because I for one have had it with senseless hostility …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
… it's not activism, it's not in support of anything, it's nothing but sickness and cruelty. I've had it with people behaving like …
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
animals. Get it together and grow up.
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
There’s surveillance video from inside the venue and police are investigating:
Not "allegedly," it happened. I have a photo on my phone from security cam footage of the incident. Debating what to do with it, if anything https://t.co/UFZLrM2FVk
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
Not sure he deserves the recognition. Police have also seen the video, as I have filed a report.
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) July 25, 2017
Good. Hopefully they find this punk and fast.
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