WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul and his wife were harassed by a mob when they were going back to their hotel after leaving the Republican National Convention on Thursday, August 27.
In a video uploaded to social media by Brendan Gutenschwager it can be seen that blocks away from the White House a barricade of police officers had to protect the senator and his wife from an angry crowd. The video shows that people were pushing and shouting at him. At one point, Senator Paul can be seen stabilizing an officer who almost fell to the ground because someone in the crowd pushed him.
“Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob,” Senator Rand Paul wrote in tweet early on Friday.
The video also shows people in the crowd screaming “say her name” and “her name is Breonna Taylor.” During an interview with Fox News Senator Paul said this was ironical as he claimed that he was the author of the Breonna Taylor Law that bans no- knock warrants.
In the interview Paul said that people in the crowd were trying to get him while they were yelling obscenities and threats. The senator expressed that he believed some people in the mob were “paid to be anarchists” and go to D.C. He thinks those people should be arrested.
Senator Rand Paul added that he was thankful for the police because he believes that if people in the crowd had gotten to him and his wife, they would have injured them.
“I truly believe that the police saved our life and we would not be here today, or we would be in the hospital today, had the police not been there,” Paul said in Fox News.
President Donald Trump referred to the event on Friday and said the people in the mob were “thugs.” He added that the officers who surrounded the senator took “tremendous abuse” and that they should receive a medal of some kind in the White House.
