Charleston, IL. (ECWd) –
Governor Pritzker spoke at a campaign event open to the public and sponsored by the Coles County Democrat party, at the Charleston Public Library on Thursday, August 25th.
While Governor Pritzker was touting his record, a Coles County resident and fitness business owner shouted to Pritzker reminding the governor that his executive orders required the shutdown of his business (the business owner’s) during COVID, but the governor left all the fitness rooms open in the Pritzker’s hotel franchises during the same time.
Pritzker supporters then proceeded to physically accost the Coles County resident who addressed the governor. One Pritzker supporter even walked down several rows of chairs to participate in the assault.
After leaving the event, the resident indicated to us that Pritzker’s security followed him after leaving the library grounds in what he felt was intimidation for speaking up.
We are working on securing the video footage and understand there are around 6 different camera angles documenting what happened, which were supplied by attendees disgusted about the assault. We also understand the State’s Attorney referred the incident to the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office for a review and charging decision on those participating in the violence. Once we receive all the footage we will follow up with a new article.
Towards the end of his presentation, Pritzker commented “there is always one in every crowd” but failed to condemn the violence that occurred while he was giving his speech.
There has been no news coverage of this violent incident, which is not a surprise to us.
