{"id":1931210,"date":"2023-05-15T17:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-wielding-a-baseball-bat-attacks-congressmans-office-2-injured\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:45:13","slug":"man-wielding-a-baseball-bat-attacks-congressmans-office-2-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-wielding-a-baseball-bat-attacks-congressmans-office-2-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman&#8217;s office attacked by man with baseball bat, 2 hurt."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fman-wielding-a-baseball-bat-attacks-congressmans-office-2-injured%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=1931210&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--><h2>Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly&#8217;s Staff Members Assaulted in His Office<\/h2>\n<p>On May 15, 2023, U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly reported that a man with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-wielding-a-baseball-bat-attacks-congressmans-office-2-injured\/\" title=\"Congressman's office attacked by man with baseball bat, 2 hurt.\">baseball bat walked<\/a> into his office in Fairfax, Virginia, asked for him, and then assaulted two members of his staff. This is the latest attack amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-schumer-asks-doj-to-expand-reach-to-stop-guns-in-places-outside-of-his-state-of-n-y\/\" title=\"Sen. Schumer asks DOJ to expand reach to stop guns in places outside of his state of N.Y.\">sharp uptick<\/a> in violence directed at lawmakers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax City Police confirmed that a suspect is in custody and the victims are being treated for injuries that are not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<h3>Connolly&#8217;s Statement<\/h3>\n<p>In a statement posted on Twitter, Connolly said the man entered his district office Monday morning and asked for him before \u201ccommitting an act of violence\u201d against two staff members. \u201cThe thought that someone would take advantage of my staff\u2019s accessibility to commit an act of violence is unconscionable and devastating,\u201d the Democrat said.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly represents Fairfax County-based 11th District in the Washington suburbs. He\u2019s serving his eighth term in Congress. He told CNN that his office sustained damage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laura-hollis-whats-behind-the-attacks-on-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/\" title=\"Laura Hollis: What's Behind the Attacks on Crisis Pregnancy Centers\">including broken windows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Increased Threats to Lawmakers<\/h3>\n<p>Threats to lawmakers and their families have increased sharply in recent years. The U.S. Capitol Police investigated around 7,500 cases of potential threats against members of Congress in 2022. The year before, they investigated around 10,000 threats to members, more than twice the number from four years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Other elected officials from Virginia swiftly condemned the violence. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner retweeted Connolly\u2019s statement, calling the attack an \u201cextraordinarily disturbing development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntimidation and violence \u2013 especially against public servants \u2013 has no place in our society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coward who did this should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,\u201d tweeted Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent Attacks on Lawmakers<\/h3>\n<p>In October, a man broke into the San Francisco home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, demanding to speak with her, before he smashed her husband, Paul, over the head with a hammer. In July, a man accosted New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican who was running for governor of New York, as he spoke at a campaign event and told Zeldin, \u201cYou\u2019re done.\u201d Zeldin wrestled the man to the ground and escaped with only a minor scrape.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly witnessed a man with a baseball bat entering his office in Fairfax. 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