A pro-Palestinian protester punched an Arab Milwaukee Police officer "for being on the wrong side of the conflict" as a group of nearly two dozen demonstrators stormed a birthday fundraiser for Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin in downtown Milwaukee Sunday.
Law enforcement sources tell News/Talk 1130 WISN that the protester, a woman, asked the officer about his background. When the officer responded that his family was part Palestinian, the woman became enraged and punched him while screaming "You are on the wrong side of this conflict!"
The officer was not hurt and his attacker was not arrested. The protesters were cleared from the Third Street Market Hall at the Avenue and Baldwin's event continued as scheduled with a number of prominent Democrats in attendance, including Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson.
The Milwaukee Police Department did not alrert the media to the incident, and the Baldwin campaign did not respond to a request for comment from News/Talk 1130 WISN, which broke the story Monday afternoon. Instead, Baldwin's campaign emailed a reporter it considered to be friendlier, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Dan Bice, who reported on the incident without crediting WISN.
"Striking a police officer is never acceptable," Baldwin spokesman Andrew Mamo told Bice (instead of WISN talk show host Dan O'Donnell, who contacted him Monday afternoon). "On Sunday, a group of protestors barged into an event they were not invited to. They were asked to leave and refused. Police were called. The protestors were removed and the event proceeded as planned."
Pro-Palestinian protesters have disrupted several campaign events for President Joe Biden, calling him "Genocide Joe" for his support of Israel following Hamas' brutal terror attack on October 7th that killed more than 1,000 innocent Israelis. Hamas terrorists are still holding more than 100 Israeli hostages in Palestinian-controlled territories. Democrats are increasingly concerned about the political impact of of these pro-Palestinian demonstrations, especially after Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib urged her supporters not to vote for Biden in the upcoming Michigan presidential primary.