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Charles Oliver | 10.19.2015 11:00 AM

Dothan, Alabama, city commissioner Amos Newsome has been charged with third-degree assault after striking a TV reporter. Ken Curtis approached Newsome after a city commission meeting and asked him about voter fraud by volunteers for his campaign in the 2013 election, leading to the attack.

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Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair 9 years ago

Will this comment show up? Is that face punchable?
1. Robert 9 years ago
  
  Looks like it's already been punched. A lot.
  1. crufus 9 years ago
    
    He got a savage beat down from Sonny Liston back in 1959.
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

Commissioners don't go into public life to answer a lot of questions, they do it to make a little graft.
1. Radioactive 9 years ago
  
  ...get down tonight?

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