Man Gets Two Years In Attack On Dem Rep. Angie Craig

November 16, 2023 Crime, Democrats

Courthouse News reports:

A man who assaulted a congresswoman in her apartment building in February was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Thursday. Kendrid Hamlin, a 27-year-old homeless man who suffers from schizophrenia, followed Representative Angie Craig, a Democrat from Minnesota, into an elevator, where first he said he needed to get into her apartment, then punched her in the jaw when she told him he needed to get off the elevator.

Craig was able to escape the elevator by throwing her hot coffee at Hamlin and screaming once the doors opened, causing Hamlin to flee down a stairwell and exit the building, according to the government’s sentencing memo. She said she had to move from her Washington apartment following media coverage of the case that disclosed the building’s address and led to a “flurry” of death threats against her and her staff.

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