Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer was shoved from behind and robbed of her cellphone in Oakland on Monday, a message from her Twitter account said.
Boxer, 80, was assaulted in the Jack London Square neighborhood.
"The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car. She is thankful that she was not seriously injured," the message read.
Boxer, a Democrat, was a U.S. representative for 10 years and then a senator for 24 years, representing California.
Boxer was first elected as a U.S. representative in 1982. She was elected to the Senate in 1992.
She did not seek re-election in 2016.
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so now a cell phone mugging is worthy of its own thread on LRC?
who reads this article and then thinks...'hmmm.. I need to repost this groundbreaking news somewhere....and I know the perfect site....a running website!'
Go watch the Olympics or something buddy
the only reason a story like this would be news at all is if the person was really really famous,.....but the fact that you felt the need to follow up in BOLD LETTERS explaining who she was..........
just weird man. weird.
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Did they really need to do all that just to take a phone from an 80-yr old?
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grumpyoldman wrote:
It was reported during the first 10 minutes of all the LA local news programs this afternoon.
What's interesting is this "cell phone mugging" (very routine in the $hithole that is Oakland) has a $2,000 reward leading to the arrest of the perps responsible the theft.
Karma for this rich old biatch who promoted the liberal policies that have made California unlivable.
At long last, Boxer will learn about the catastrophic PTSD epidemic that follows the endless epidemic of violent crimes of color.
NOTICE that she didn't even tweet the news, it was somebody else who had to tweet it for her, from Boxer's account. That's because Boxer is all shook up, and she'll be having nightmares for months/years, and she'll be reluctant to walk from her car to ANYWHERE now.
How can an 80 year old woman be violently attacked without being seriously injured?
* wrote:
How can an 80 year old woman be violently attacked without being seriously injured?
Violence doesn't imply injury. It just describes the character of the attack itself. If someone throws haymakers at you and misses every hit that's still considered a violent attack.
Bay Reddit libs react to the news, I'm sure the reactions are firmly grounded in reality, lol:
https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/os9ukc/barbara_boxer_on_twitter_earlier_today_former/
grumpyoldman wrote:
Karma for this rich old biatch who promoted the liberal policies that have made California unlivable.
Classic case of ye reap what ye sow. She played by the sword, she got bopped in the head by the sword. What comes around, goes around. She made her bed, then she had to lie in it. Stewing in her own prunes. Basically, she brought her own hide to market here.
Maybe she can hire private security like these awful people do.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/democratic-led-cities-spend-private-security-defund-policein other news....LRC triple jamps the shark wrote:
the only reason a story like this would be news at all is if the person was really really famous,.....but the fact that you felt the need to follow up in BOLD LETTERS explaining who she was..........
just weird man. weird.
Typical liberal…thinks you shouldn’t even be reading information that refutes the progressive narrative…
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fully vaxxed, anti-masked wrote:
in other news....LRC triple jamps the shark wrote:
the only reason a story like this would be news at all is if the person was really really famous,.....but the fact that you felt the need to follow up in BOLD LETTERS explaining who she was..........
just weird man. weird.
Typical liberal…thinks you shouldn’t even be reading information that refutes the progressive narrative…
No, I just think it should be on a relevant website....posting here makes zero sense.
post it on "r/conservative_violence_porn_crimes_by minorities" or wherever you sikos gather, no here on a running site
95% of these kinds of posts on LRC are about minorities even though whites commit half the violent crime in the country...... ...so obviously the posters are specifically seeking out and posting crimes committed by minorities like some kind of fetish.
. Again....just weird man....weird.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
* wrote:
How can an 80 year old woman be violently attacked without being seriously injured?
Violence doesn't imply injury. It just describes the character of the attack itself. If someone throws haymakers at you and misses every hit that's still considered a violent attack.
No
Throwing punches and missing everyone is not a violent attack.
in other news....LRC triple jamps the shark wrote:
fully vaxxed, anti-masked wrote:
Typical liberal…thinks you shouldn’t even be reading information that refutes the progressive narrative…
95% of these kinds of posts on LRC are about minorities even though whites commit half the violent crime in the country...... ...
Not even close to true, man. You must selectively filter what you want to get upset about. My guess is 60-40, and not in the direction you claim.
in other news....LRC triple jamps the shark wrote:
fully vaxxed, anti-masked wrote:
Typical liberal…thinks you shouldn’t even be reading information that refutes the progressive narrative…
No, I just think it should be on a relevant website....posting here makes zero sense.
post it on "r/conservative_violence_porn_crimes_by minorities" or wherever you sikos gather, no here on a running site
95% of these kinds of posts on LRC are about minorities even though whites commit half the violent crime in the country...... ...so obviously the posters are specifically seeking out and posting crimes committed by minorities like some kind of fetish.
. Again....just weird man....weird.
+1.
Kyng Cornish wrote:
in other news....LRC triple jamps the shark wrote:
95% of these kinds of posts on LRC are about minorities even though whites commit half the violent crime in the country...... ...
Not even close to true, man. You must selectively filter what you want to get upset about. My guess is 60-40, and not in the direction you claim.
LOLOLOLOOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
ok buddy
Did you just say that with a straight face? that 60% of the random non-running related threads about violent crimes and 'thugs' on LRC are about white people? You......expect people to believe that? Really?
Just trying to get a gauge on exactly how distorted your version of reality is............
I mean....this is just seriously amusing that someone tries to make that claim and expects to be taken seriously.
Kyng Cornish wrote:
in other news....LRC triple jamps the shark wrote:
95% of these kinds of posts on LRC are about minorities even though whites commit half the violent crime in the country...... ...
Not even close to true, man. You must selectively filter what you want to get upset about. My guess is 60-40, and not in the direction you claim.
Put your money where your mouth is. Do a search for 'thug' in LRC and let me know if you get a 60-40 split of white people.
Report back what you find unless you are a coward that is scared to admit when they are wrong.
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