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Charles Oliver | 10.19.2015 11:00 AM


Amos Newsome
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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.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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