Commentary
They say that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. That could be one way to describe Minnesota Democratic Rep. Angie Craig, a one-time House progressive who in 2020 and 2021 voted to support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a bill that would have made it significantly easier to hold federal, state, and local law enforcement officers criminally and civilly liable for alleged misconduct. (The bill, strongly opposed by Republicans, passed the Democrat-controlled House but died in the Senate.)
Then, on the morning of Feb. 9, Craig was assaulted in the elevator of her Capitol Hill apartment building: punched in the chin and grabbed by the neck. She escaped by flinging hot coffee at her assailant….