{"id":103725,"date":"2022-10-26T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=103725"},"modified":"2022-10-26T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:37:07","slug":"gop-seizes-on-beating-of-rubio-canvasser-as-political-violence-appears-actually-victim-was-violent-white-supremacist-who-got-into-nonpolitical-argument-with-hispanic-man-out-on-felony-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=103725","title":{"rendered":"GOP Seizes on Beating of Rubio Canvasser as Political Violence; Appears Actually Victim Was Violent White Supremacist Who Got Into Nonpolitical Argument with Hispanic Man Out on Felony Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jezebel<\/a>: “I immediately smelled a rat, especially considering that Hialeah, Florida\u2014where the incident took place\u2014is a Republican stronghold. As the day goes on, it\u2019s become increasingly clear that the story didn\u2019t happen the way Rubio said it did. First, the victim in question has been identified as Christopher Monzon, a white supremacist nicknamed the \u201cCuban Confederate\u201d who participated in the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has a history of violence, and is deeply involved in Miami Republican politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A police report obtained by the Miami New Times confirms that a man has been arrested in the attack: 22-year-old Javier Jesus Lopez, who \u201chas a violent past and is out on felony bond,\u201d according to NBC News reporter Marc Caputo. The police report says Lopez allegedly told Monzon, \u201cYou can\u2019t pass by here. This is my neighborhood,\u201d before slamming him to the ground. But the report \u201cdoes not mention a political dispute, nor does it indicate that Lopez targeted Monzon because Monzon is a Republican,\u201d according to the New Times. The report also does not indicate that Monzon was attacked by \u201cfour animals,\u201d as Rubio claimed in his dehumanizing tweet, though police told CBS they\u2019re looking to talk to \u201ctwo other possible people of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s definitely odd for a U.S. senator to tweet out a story before local news or the police have said a word about it, and conveniently leave out the fact that the victim has a history of perpetrating white supremacist violence himself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jezebel: “I immediately smelled a rat, especially considering that Hialeah, Florida\u2014where the incident took place\u2014is a Republican stronghold. As the day goes on, it\u2019s become increasingly clear that the story didn\u2019t happen the way Rubio said it did. First, the victim in question has been identified as Christopher Monzon, a white supremacist nicknamed the \u201cCuban…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103726,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103725\/revisions\/103726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}