Political Unrest of the Day: An Alabama Politician Slapped a Reporter, Drawing Blood

That's no way to answer a reporter's question.

A television reporter asking about a surfacing voter fraud scandal was met with open hostility by an Alabama city commissioner Oct. 6.

According to Jezebel:

WTVY reporter Ken Curtis approached City Commissioner Amos Newsome of Dothan, Alabama to ask if he was planning to resign. Newsome, a Democrat, has been facing calls from fellow city commissioners to resign after three of his campaign workers were convicted of voter fraud. Newsome, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, has not been charged with fraud himself.

Newsome's response to Curtis's questions was, some face-shoving, some yelling, and then, finally, some hitting, hard enough that Curtis staggered backwards.

Curtis later posted a picture of himself on Twitter, showing the result of that slap/scratch.

Here's a link to a video on WTVY's Facebook page of Amos Newsome hitting reporter Ken Curtis http://t.co/MDbjmm7C2u pic.twitter.com/Co1GSASPse

— Dothan Eagle (@dothaneagle) October 6, 2015

Dotham police arrested Newsome and charged him with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor.