Summary
Maine Republican lawmaker Lucas Lanigan won re-election to the state House by a single vote after a recount, despite facing domestic violence aggravated assault charges.
Lanigan is accused of choking his wife during a confrontation about an alleged affair, though he denies wrongdoing and calls the charges “ridiculous.”
His wife later asked for the charges to be dropped, but prosecutors are proceeding, citing evidence of strangulation.
Democrats have called for his resignation, while Republican leaders emphasized due process.
Maine Republican lawmaker Lucas Lanigan won re-election to the state House by a single vote after a recount,
So, he is now a re-cunt?
What a fascinating vignette of the human condition
https://naplesshelter.org/strangulation/
any reported history of strangulation places the person at a higher risk for more serious violence or homicide by the hands of their intimate partner. Data on strangulation reveals a glaring picture of the severity of this type of assault. One in four women will experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime, and of those, up to 68 percent will suffer near-fatal strangulation at the hands of their partner.
Of the victims, 97 percent are strangled by hands; 38 percent reported losing consciousness; 35 percent are strangled during sexual assault/abuse; 9 percent are also pregnant, and 70 percent of strangled women believed they were going to die.
This article diffinerates between choking and strangulation; the former being airflow being blocked from applying pressure to your throat and the latter is blocking airflow and/or bloodflow from applying pressure on the side of your neck. I don’t think this is common knowledge and I would not trust anyone who put their hands on someone else’s neck
For the curious:
Dude choked a woman at a public storage place. She later went to the hospital with bruises around her neck from the strangling. I imagine there will be video evidence since storage places have tons of cameras.
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Riddle said he investigated the matter and learned that the woman went to meet Lanigan at Springvale Safe Storage on River Street earlier that afternoon at 12:45 p.m.
When she arrived, she saw Lanigan there with another woman, with whom Lanigan had allegedly been having an affair, according to the affidavit.
The woman began yelling at the other woman. She confronted Lanigan about the alleged infidelity.
According to the affidavit, the woman said Lanigan then “grabbed her around the neck with both hands and choked her for approximately 20 seconds.”
The woman was able to get away from him, and she went home, where she called two of her friends, the affidavit states.
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First responders brought the woman to Maine Medical Center in Sanford to be treated.
The victim “has bruising on the left and right side of her neck,” according to the affidavit.
As a result of the alleged strangulation, she also had spots on her face and nose and inside her mouth, according to the affidavit.
Party not in headline, turns out to be a Republican. DRINK!
Making a drinking game out of this will almost certainly lead to alchohol poisoning and death.
Just offering the sweet release of death to my fellow humans with consciences.
Lol, didn’t even notice it. I just started mentally putting ‘Republican’ in there by default.
and it’s true most of the time
I honestly just assumed.
MAGA when there’s a real and obvious failure by outlets to note political affiliation when they report on Republican politicians constantly doing reprehensible shit: I sleep
MAGA when they manufacture a conspiracy about a concerted effort by “woke” journalists to cover up the race of black and Latino suspected criminals: REAL SHIT?
He could’ve murdered a child on live television before the election and the results would not have changed.
“I was going to go vote blue down ticket, but…”
this is why the two party system is shit lmfao
This is why right wing media bubbles are problem. Sinclair owns a lot of the local affiliates.
Recount!
This is after several recounts
Republicans vote like assholes.
Because, by and large, Repiblicans are assholes. They vote for their kind.
Recount time?
It’s literally in the first sentence
Maine Republican lawmaker Lucas Lanigan won re-election to the state House by a single vote after a recount
Did you not read the title?
