PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- A violent encounter at Pensacola Beach on Friday left a woman injured.A group of people were waving political signsin support of Kamal
in support of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz at the corner of Via De Luna and Fort Pickens Road. The trouble started when Holly Shelton Snowden says a passerby began yelling at their group.Shelton Snowden says about an hour after she arrived, a passerby began shouting at a member of the group -- and the interaction was caught on camera.
She says she tried to end the conflict by stepping in -- but from there, a woman stole her sign and ran off.Shelton Snowden"I didn't have time to think anything. I tried not to fall down," she said. "When she struck me, I was really hurt. It frightened me." As a result, Shelton Snowden is left with a bruised eye and a broken pair of glasses. She's determined to find the woman that hit her.
"I need it for myself. They don't let us say 'closure' as behavioral therapists, but I need closure," she said. "And I need to know that my eye is alright. She needs to pay for my eye."A volunteer with the Harris-Walz campaign says there's no place for violence within our democracy. She says politics aside, it shouldn't have happened.
"I pray this is just one of those accidents that happen," said Jewel Canada-Wynn with the Harris-Walz campaign. "That it is not an example of what is to come between now and tomorrow.""I'm over 65, and what she did was assaulting an elder, and that's a felony in Florida, so I've been told by police," she said.The Escambia County Sheriff's Office says there is an open investigation. No arrest has been made.
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