{"id":1841414,"date":"2023-02-09T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841414"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:22:39","slug":"house-dem-angie-craig-assaulted-in-elevator-of-dc-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dem-angie-craig-assaulted-in-elevator-of-dc-apartment-building\/","title":{"rendered":"House Dem Angie Craig Assaulted in Elevator of DC Apartment Building"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhouse-dem-angie-craig-assaulted-in-elevator-of-dc-apartment-building%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=1841414&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1461736606-scaled-e1675967792954.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>According to her office, a House Democrat was assaulted in an apartment elevator in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) \u201cdefended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically okay,\u201d In a statement, Nick Coe, her chief of staff, said so.<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman\u2019s office said Craig called 911 and the assailant fled the scene. \u201cThere is no evidence that the incident was politically motivated,\u201d The statement has been added.<\/p>\n<p>Craig thanked D.C. Metropolitan Police Department&#8217;s prompt response and noted the congresswoman. \u201casks for privacy at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement by Rep. Angie Craig\u2019s Chief of Staff:https:\/\/t.co\/YHXKJkuK42&#8243;>pic.twitter.com\/YHXKJkuK42<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angie Craig (@RepAngieCraig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAngieCraig\/status\/1623741866461081601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a police report, the incident was described as follows: \u201csimple assault\u201d he claims that there are no hate crimes suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Craig claimed that the suspect was seen in the lobby of her apartment building. \u201cacting erratic\u201d The report states that he behaved as though he was under the influence a mysterious substance.<\/p>\n<p>Craig claimed that Craig told police she had spoken to the suspect. \u201cgood morning,\u201d The suspect followed her into an elevator \u201cand began to randomly do push ups.\u201d Craig described the suspect to police at that time. \u201cwith a closed fist,\u201d Punched her on her chin and then grabbed her neck.<\/p>\n<p>Craig was arrested by police \u201cdefended herself by tossing her hot coffee\u201d At the suspect. According to the report, the suspect fled before officers arrived. The report stated that officers searched the basement parking lot and found no evidence of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the Daily Wire is still investigating the case.<\/p>\n<p>Craig was back at work hours after the alleged assault. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-unites-to-condemn-china-over-suspected-spy-balloon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She voted along with fellow Democrats as well as Republicans<\/a> to unanimously approve a resolution to formally reprove China over a suspected spy ballon that flew past the United States last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After losing a congressional bid in 2016, Craig was first elected to represent Minnesota\u2019s Second Congressional District in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Craig is married to Cheryl Greene and they have four sons. <a href=\"https:\/\/craig.house.gov\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the congresswoman\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story. Refresh the page to see updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to her office, a House Democrat was assaulted in an apartment elevator in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning. Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) \u201cdefended herself from the attacker and suffered bruising, but is otherwise physically okay,\u201d In a statement, Nick Coe, her chief of staff, said so. The congresswoman\u2019s office said Craig called 911 and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1841324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[18202,7299,7981,5077,18201,6244,18184,3653],"class_list":["post-1841414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-angie","tag-apartment","tag-assaulted","tag-building","tag-craig","tag-dem","tag-elevator","tag-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841414","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=1841414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}