Former Sen. Barbara Boxer attacked in California

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Source: The Hill

Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was attacked in Oakland, Calif., on Monday but not seriously injured, according to a statement on her official Twitter account.

Boxer, 80, was allegedly pushed in the back by an assailant who stole her cellphone before jumping into a waiting car, according to her statement.

The Oakland Police Department told The Hill that a victim was walking in the 300 block of 3rd Street at 1:15 p.m. when they were "approached by a suspect" who "forcefully took loss from the victim, and fled in a nearby waiting vehicle."

The department, which did not identify the victim, said the incident is being investigated by the Oakland Police Department's robbery section.

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[Hekate]

1. Oh no! I hope they get the perp immediately if not sooner!

Stay safe, Senator Boxer.

[ret5hd]

2. Somebody wanted that phone.

Just sayin’.

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[summer_in_TX]

18. Hope she had a phone they can't break into.

Supposedly an iPhone can't be cracked.

[Juneboarder]

35. Ha!

My 12 year old son just showed me the hack on how to open a locked iPhone...

[summer_in_TX]

47. Bummer.

Law enforcement seemed to be having so much trouble doing it.

[C Moon]

20. Yep. Political. With the upcoming elections, we'll be seeing a lot more GOP crap like this.

[oldsoftie]

27. Yeah, I'm SURE the crook knew who she was.

She's been out of office for years, what super secret info would be gleaned from an 80 yr old former Senator's phone?
Random crime on an easy target by a useless POS.

[Kablooie]

25. Somebody stupid wanted the phone.

It's locked securely, it can easily be tracked to exactly its location and if it's destroyed all the data can be restored to a new phone easily from a backup.

[Irish_Dem]

42. I thought the same thing. What info could be on her phone that they want?

She is a retired US Senator. She would no longer have access to classified information?
Any personal gossip would no longer be an issue, she is not running for office again.

[Deminpenn]

3. It's not like the phone can't be tracked

nt

[C Moon]

21. I lost my iPhone last winter. Went home and checked the Find My Phone app on my iPad.

Someone had turned off my phone.
So I immediately set it up to be erased when it turned back on.

They turned it back on (I actually got a message that they were trying to guess the lock code), and after it was turned on, it was erased.
Whew.

[Javaman]

29. good to know. I didn't know you could set it to erase when turned back on.

That's great info!

[C Moon]

33. Yes. I recommend setting that up (if you have another iOS device).

[Dream Girl]

4. Are people still snatching cellphones?

I thought that was over.

[everyonematters]

5. He probably thought he was going to uncover some scandal.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. What kinda scumbags rob an 80 year old, 4'11" tall woman?

Jack London Square is close to 3rd Street in O-town, she was probably there shopping.

[ansible]

8. Same people that have been attacking elderly asians for the past several months

Easy targets

[gipper66]

10. Proud Boys and white supremacists

I hope they get them.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Ummm ... given where this happened ... I would not put my eggs in that particular basket

That's pretty unlikely to be who it was.

If it WAS though, let's just say it's going to be very interesting.

[OnlinePoker]

12. At least half of the attacks on Asians I've seen video of are by people of color. n/t

[ThunderRoad]

13. "At least..."

"At least" indeed.

[RandiFan1290]

26. trump lost

get over it

[George II]

14. My mother was 4'-11" too, 105 pounds. In her late 70s she had some butthole grab her handbag....

....from her shoulder. It spun her around and she fell on her face. Had 2 black eyes for a couple of weeks.

She lived almost another 20 years, and hopefully the prick that tried to rob her (he didn't get away with her handbag!) got the crap beaten out of him in prison and, in a perfect world, didn't survive.

But I'm sure she lived longer than him!

[TheProle]

34. Your perfect world

Is one in which pursesnatchers are beaten to death while in custody of the state?

[George II]

37. Just who are you, TheProle?

[TheProle]

39. Same as you.

Some guy on the internet.

[George II]

43. No. You're not the same as me.

[TheProle]

44. Ah

Then the question may better be put to you.

[George II]

45. Um.......

[maxsolomon]

38. It never fails on DU, this bastion of Liberalism

A poster always has to wish extrajudicial Prison violence on a criminal. At least this time they didn't want him raped!

[George II]

46. But you're defending someone who mugged a 78 year old woman.

[maxsolomon]

48. saying a prisoner shouldn't be killed by another prisoner is not DEFENDING his crime.

it's defending the Justice System which convicted him and issued punishment it deemed sufficient.

being murdered or assaulted in prison was not part of the sentence. dispensing "rough justice" in the form of prison assault, rape or murder is not the job of the other prisoners.

can you understand that distinction?

[iluvtennis]

16. So glad Boxer wasn't seriously injured. The thief who stole the phone only has a BRICK as

Boxer will do Find My iphone and lock it and the phone is useless for anything other than a paper weight.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

31. iPhone?

Why is everyone assuming it is an iPhone? almost 50% of the US market is Android. I do not know if Android OS phones have the find and lock capabilities.

[iluvtennis]

32. My bad :-( So, crossing my fingers it's an ipad. n/t

[Bayard]

19. Holy Crap!!

Glad she's okay. Her office really tried to help me when I was in Calif.

Wonder if the thief knew who she was?

[maxsolomon]

22. LIkely a teenage male with no clue whose phone they were snatching.

Occam's Razor. When the cops track him down, it will be yet another sad tale of indicative of ignorance and systemic poverty.

[Devil Child]

23. Yeah, my heart weeps for the poor youth forced by society to rob and assault an elderly woman.

Occam's Razor. The assailant is a thug.

[maxsolomon]

24. Ahh... "Thug". Gotcha.

It's not an excuse. I didn't ask you to feel empathy.

It's just the likely explanation, rather than some Proud Boy or GOP operation. Young men who rob and assault the elderly are usually from disadvantaged backgrounds.

https://theconversation.com/thugs-is-a-race-code-word-that-fuels-anti-black-racism-100312

[oldsoftie]

28. "Poverty" is no excuse for violence.

Whoever attacked Sen Boxer could easily get a job right now paying 15-20 an hour. People like this dont WANT to work

[maxsolomon]

36. As I've said before: you're no Softie.

I wasn't excusing an assault and robbery. I'm predicting the likely context.

[oldsoftie]

49. Sure I am; ask my wife & cat!

Just have no "softness" for people like this.

[LanternWaste]

40. No one is arguing otherwise.

You do realize the relevant difference between "excuse" and "theorize", yes?

"People like this dont (sic) WANT to work"
Like Aaron Long? Or does that work against the narrative

[Elessar Zappa]

41. If it was easy to get a job that paid that much,

we’d have much less poverty. Poverty doesn’t exist because people don’t want to work.

[lagomorph777]

30. I've always had a crush on her.

Really sucks what the world has come to.