Utah police arrested a person accused of assaulting a Florida congressman this weekend at a Sundance Movie Pageant after the person allegedly hurled racist feedback to a number of patrons of a Inventive Artists Company celebration.
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Florida) posted on X that he was “okay” after being slugged by the person, recognized by police as 28-year-old Christian Younger.
“I used to be assaulted by a person at Sundance Pageant who informed me that Trump was going to deport me earlier than he punched me within the face,” Frost wrote Saturday in an X publish. “He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off. The person was arrested.”
Frost, 29, has the excellence of being the first member of Gen Z elected to U.S. Congress. Born in Orlando, Frost is in his second time period representing a Central Florida district. He’s Afro-Latino.
On his web site, Frost famous his “numerous heritage with roots in Puerto Rican, Lebanese, and Haitian ancestry.” He was adopted at beginning “by a Kansas-born musician-producer and … a particular training trainer who immigrated to the US from Cuba as a baby within the Nineteen Sixties.”
An individual who was on the celebration informed The Instances that the suspect crashed the celebration and stated “offensive issues” to a number of partygoers, together with within the males’s restroom, earlier than allegedly assaulting the congressman.
Safety personnel eliminated the suspect from the venue, the supply stated. Police rapidly arrived.
Park Metropolis Police Lt. Danielle Snelson stated that officers responded to a report of an assault simply after midnight on the Excessive West Saloon on Park Avenue — the placement of the Friday evening celebration hosted by CAA.
“Upon arrival, officers performed an investigation and decided that Christian Younger unlawfully entered a non-public celebration after beforehand being turned away for not having an invite,” Snelson wrote in an electronic mail. “As soon as contained in the saloon, Younger assaulted Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost and a feminine who was attending the non-public occasion.”
Frost’s companion was not recognized.
After the incident, the congressman was seen talking with Park Metropolis law enforcement officials exterior the restaurant. In his X publish, Frost wrote: “Thanks to the venue safety and Park Metropolis PD for help on this incident.”
The suspect was arrested and booked into Utah’s Summit County Jail on prices of aggravated housebreaking and two counts of easy assault.
Axios reported that County Decide Richard Mrazik ordered Younger to be held with out bail due to “convincing proof” that he might flee the realm and “would represent a considerable hazard” to the group.
“I’m horrified by the assault on Congressman Maxwell Frost. Grateful that he’s okay, however appalled that this terrifying assault occurred,” Democratic Home Chief Hakeem Jeffries wrote on X. “The perpetrator have to be aggressively prosecuted. Hate and political violence has no place in our nation.”
The altercation occurred a number of hours earlier than the lethal capturing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis by a federal agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Saturday capturing has sparked widespread outrage. It was the third capturing in Minneapolis by ICE officers within the final three weeks, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara informed CBS Information.
On Sunday, a small group of a couple of dozen anti-ICE protesters walked up Park Metropolis’s Principal Road, urging pageant attendees to affix them.
Workers author Samantha Masunaga contributed to this report.
