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Union thugs attack citizens concerned about Obamacare
A town hall meeting to discuss President Obama’s health care reform descended into shouting and violence in a Tampa,Fla.,suburb Thursday as angry opponents clashed with event organizers.
Close to 1,500 people came to Ybor City to attend the session on health care and insurance reform featuring Democratic State Rep. Betty Reed and U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor before the event exploded into a near riot.
According to local media reports,the larger-than-expected crowd gathered outside the Hillsborough County Children’s Board building,where several hundred people,mostly in opposition to government health care,began to loudly chant and scuffle with organizers posted at doorways after the auditorium filled to capacity.
A freelance videographer was roughed up in an altercation,which damaged his camera equipment and glasses,and at least one man was treated for minor injuries after a scuffle left his shirt partially torn from his body.