{"id":1365248,"date":"2022-03-08T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365248"},"modified":"2022-03-08T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:26:04","slug":"beto-orourke-staffer-gets-physical-with-blaze-medias-sara-gonzales-police-officer-manhandles-her-at-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beto-orourke-staffer-gets-physical-with-blaze-medias-sara-gonzales-police-officer-manhandles-her-at-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Beto O\u2019Rourke Staffer Gets Physical With Blaze Media\u2019s Sara Gonzales, Police Officer \u2018Manhandles\u2019 Her At Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeto-orourke-staffer-gets-physical-with-blaze-medias-sara-gonzales-police-officer-manhandles-her-at-event%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-1.50.38-PM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Blaze Media\u2019s Sara Gonzales said Sunday that a staffer for Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto\u00a0O\u2019Rourke tried to rip her phone from her hands while she was at a public event for the candidate in Dallas, Texas.\u00a0Gonzales was then \u201cmanhandled\u201d by a female officer with the Dallas Police Department and almost fell down nearby stairs, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Not once was Gonzales directed not to record anything by anyone at the event, the conservative told The Daily Wire, adding that others had their phones out to record, too.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales provided a photo to The Daily Wire that is posted on\u00a0O\u2019Rourke\u2019s own social media from the event. In the crowd, some attendees have their phones out, seemingly recording or taking photos of the Democrat, the picture shows.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to everyone who joined us for today\u2019s education town hall!<\/p>\n<p>Together, we\u2019ll guarantee that this state finally has world-class schools where we fully fund our classrooms and fully support Texas teachers, students, and parents. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FtZP7StMog\">pic.twitter.com\/FtZP7StMog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beto O&#8217;Rourke (@BetoORourke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetoORourke\/status\/1500635450368798724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEarlier today, I attended a Beto O\u2019Rourke townhall,\u201d Gonzales shared on social media over the weekend. \u201cI started to record an interaction between Beto &#038; a constituent while he was taking pictures. His staffer grabbed my phone &#038; tried to pry it out of my hands, then a DPD officer manhandled me unprovoked. Beto is NOT for TX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be consulting my attorney and requesting bodycam footage from DPD,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere were people recording on their phones all afternoon. The police gave me no directive before manhandling me and almost pushing me down the stairs. Imagine what this man would allow if elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will be consulting my attorney and requesting bodycam footage from DPD. There were people recording on their phones all afternoon. The police gave me no directive before manhandling me and almost pushing me down the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what this man would allow if elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraGonzalesTX\/status\/1500652614689697795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cStep 1 is done (formal request for bodycam footage),\u201d she added, captioning a screenshot of the request. \u201cFiling the police report against the staffer for the battery she committed comes tomorrow as it must be done in person. I have identified her by name.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Step 1 is done (formal request for bodycam footage). <\/p>\n<p>Filing the police report against the staffer for the battery she committed comes tomorrow as it must be done in person. <\/p>\n<p>I have identified her by name. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6EDBxDWH1o\">pic.twitter.com\/6EDBxDWH1o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraGonzalesTX\/status\/1500997568855257090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter his townhall, Beto was taking pictures and chatting with attendees of the event, many of whom had their phones out for the sole purpose of taking pictures and\/or video,\u201d Gonzales told The Daily Wire on Tuesday. \u201cThis was a public event. There were never any instructions not to film, nor were there signs.\u00a0In fact, a photo posted on Twitter by Beto\u2019s team shows numerous audience members with their phones up, and video cameras in the back. They also live-streamed the event. This was clearly not an event that prohibited video recording.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started recording at this public forum, as I had seen many others do, and was immediately attacked by Beto\u2019s staffer, who blocked me and grabbed my phone, trying to pull it out of my hands,\u201d she recalled. \u201cAs I was attempting to maintain the grip on my phone while it was being pulled from me, a black female Dallas Police officer blindsided me and forcefully grabbed my arms, pushing me away where I nearly tripped down some steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had given no directive, no instruction, no warning before forcefully putting her hands on me,\u201d Gonzales continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not a criminal and had not broken any laws. I\u2019ve never been in an incident like this with law enforcement, and have always been extremely supportive and respectful of them, but this incident affected me very viscerally. The fact that I had to wrestle my private property away from a stranger attempting to take it from me only to be manhandled by the police as if I were a criminal is deeply upsetting,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel violated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales noted that the crowd of O\u2019Rourke supporters did not say or do anything in reaction to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven worse was seeing the crowd of people \u2014 presumably the same people who insisted police should stand down and allow criminals to loot stores and burn down buildings \u2013 watching this abuse of power happen in total silence,\u201d she told The Daily Wire. \u201cHonestly, it felt like I was in the twilight zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales has already formally requested related body camera footage from the police department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also filing a complaint against the officer, as well as a police report for the battery that was committed against me by the campaign staffer,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later on Tuesday, the conservative confirmed to The Daily Wire that she has filed a\u00a0complaint against the officer via email and is awaiting confirmation from internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>At around the same time, the department told The Daily Wire they have yet to receive the complaint. \u201cThis abuse of power should not happen to anyone,\u201d Gonzales told The Daily Wire. \u201cLaw enforcement is supposed to enforce laws, not work as the mafia muscle for their preferred political candidate. If the Beto campaign is perfectly fine using the police to punish law abiding citizens, imagine what he\u2019d do once in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaze Media\u2019s Sara Gonzales said Sunday that a staffer for Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto\u00a0O\u2019Rourke tried to rip her phone from her hands while she was at a public event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}