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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsColorado man pleads guilty to throwing water on Steve King
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) A Colorado man has admitted to throwing a cup of water on Iowa Rep. Steve King.
Court records show that 27-year-old Blake Gibbins of Lafayette, Colorado, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Sioux City, Iowa, to one misdemeanor count of assaulting a member of Congress.
As part of a plea agreement, Gibbins admitted that on March 22, he approached a table at a Fort Dodge, Iowa, restaurant and threw a cup of water at King. The Republican congressman was seated with others.
Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Kelly Mahoney will sentence Gibbins at a later date. He faces a possible maximum sentence of a year in prison, a $100,000 fine and five years of probation.
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Colorado man pleads guilty to throwing water on Steve King (Original Post)
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Sep 2019
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TexasTowelie
(112,167 posts)1. How about time served and a $100 fine.
Just enough to say that he was punished and nothing more.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)2. sounds just, to me!
It is entirely possible that the man was trying to clean some of the nasty off of King.
A cup of water is hardly a deadly weapon. Had it been something that was a credible threat, with a reasonable likelihood of causing injury, it would be good to send a message that such an attack is not to be tolerated.
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)3. Did he melt like a wicked witch?
If not, no harm no foul.
Maybe stick him with a dry cleaning bill.