Student sues Sen. David Perdue for snatching his phone when he asked about voting rights

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

By Amy B Wang October 22 at 3:39 PM

A Georgia student who says Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) snatched his cellphone away this month as he tried to ask about possible voter suppression in the state has filed a lawsuit against the lawmaker for battery.

Attorneys for Nathan Knauf, a junior at Georgia Tech, filed the complaint in Fulton County State Court on Monday morning, seeking a jury trial, unspecified damages, attorneys' fees and others costs from Perdue.

Perdue’s office has maintained that the exchange was a misunderstanding and that the senator took the student’s phone to take a selfie. On Monday, Perdue’s office called the lawsuit “outrageous and completely frivolous.”

The incident took place Oct. 13, when Perdue visited Georgia Tech to campaign for Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican who is locked in a tight gubernatorial race with Democrat Stacey Abrams.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/22/student-sues-sen-david-perdue-snatching-his-phone-when-he-asked-about-voting-rights/

[left-of-center2012]

1. ROTFLMAO

"Perdue’s office has maintained that the exchange was a misunderstanding and that the senator took the student’s phone to take a selfie."

[BigmanPigman]

4. They are not very good liars, are they?

That excuse is right up there with the Saudi journalist "accidentally getting strangled during a routine interrogation". Sure, and there is a great deal on a really cheap bridge in NY too.

[catrose]

9. So if you take a selfie with someone else's phone, you get to keep the phone?

I didn't know that.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. I know a bunch of people are cooling their heels in Cook County jail for wanting to "take selfies"..

... with other people’s cell phones. It usually happens on el train platforms.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Bullshit liar Perdue. Listen to him in anger snatching that kid's phone. Fucker.

[2naSalit]

3. Good...

Purdue has lts of money so I say get all you can out of him!

[PatrickforO]

5. Take a selfie?

That doesn't quite compute, because after the selfie, wouldn't he have given the phone back?

This sounds like one of those 'alternative facts.'

Or, as I prefer to call them, 'LIES.'

[7962]

7. If you watch the video, he does. But its because he realizes he screwed up.

As soon as he grabs the phone and the student protests, he starts saying "you wanted a picture, lets take a picture", etc.
He's trying to cover his ass.

[SunSeeker]

6. Good. What Perdue did was indeed assault. It was not ok.

Then he insulted our intelligence with that lame selfie lie. A jury will hate him, and judges hate liars.

[7962]

8. Perdue is an ass (and a snob too), but I doubt this will ever make it to a trial.

I just don't see a judge allowing a phone snatch to proceed. We'll see.

Now I'll wait for my troll to "Waste" a post with some useless word salad.

[Honeycombe8]

11. I'm forming a picture of Georgia that is downright scary. What the heck is going on there?

A Senator took a citizen's phone from him? They're out of control.

[Judi Lynn]

12. He's worried there aren't enough photos of him.

Purdue with the little missus. They look so happy.