{"id":1126,"date":"2023-02-10T10:33:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2023-02-10T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:33:47","slug":"just-in-democrat-congresswoman-assaulted-in-her-dc-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Democrat Congresswoman Assaulted in Her DC Apartment Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congresswoman Angie Craig of Minnesota was attacked inside her Washington, DC apartment complex Thursday morning, her Chief-of-Staff has confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief of Staff Nick Coe released a statement shortly after the assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement by Rep. Angie Craig&#39;s Chief of Staff: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YHXKJkuK42\">pic.twitter.com\/YHXKJkuK42<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Angie Craig (@RepAngieCraig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAngieCraig\/status\/1623741866461081601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Minnesota U.S. Rep. Angie Craig was physically assaulted in her Washington, D.C., apartment building, defending herself before her attacker fled. Craig suffered bruising but is &quot;otherwise physically okay,&quot; according to a statement from her office. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gp02UWCGT\">https:\/\/t.co\/8gp02UWCGT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1623747036943196168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis morning around 7:15 a.m., Rep. Craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building in Washington DC.,\u201d Coe said in a statement. \u201cRep. Craig defended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically okay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRep. Craig is grateful to the DC Metropolitan Police Department for their quick response and asks for privacy at this time,\u201d Coe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirsttv.com\/just-in-democrat-congresswoman-assaulted-in-her-dc-apartment-building\/\">https:\/\/www.thefirsttv.com\/just-in-democrat-congresswoman-assaulted-in-her-dc-apartment-building\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Angie Craig of Minnesota was attacked inside her Washington, DC apartment complex Thursday morning, her Chief-of-Staff has confirmed. Chief of Staff Nick Coe released a statement shortly after the assault. \u201cThis morning around 7:15 a.m., Rep. Craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building in Washington DC.,\u201d Coe said in a statement. \u201cRep. Craig defended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically okay.\u201d \u201cRep. Craig is grateful to the DC Metropolitan Police Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}