8 am rally at the Milwaukee County Jail 7/17/24
Code Pink in a statement after the arrest identified the woman involved in the incident as the group’s Palestinian campaign organizer, Nour Jaghama.
The group said Jaghama, whom they described as “visibly Palestinian,” was “intentionally bumped into” by Van Orden “while he tried to shove past her.”
“He tried to cut me in line so I stood in front of him because I was first,” Jaghama said in a video posted by the group to X.
Other Code Pink activists in the video said they were in line for a “Republican women’s brunch” when “someone… came up and shoved her,” one activist said in the video, referring to Jaghama. “It ended up being Derrick Van Orden, a member of Congress from Wisconsin, who, as soon as he ran into her said, ‘You are assaulting a member of Congress.’”
Van Orden, who is running for re-election in the state’s 3rd Congressional District, has been involved in confrontations before. In 2021, he reportedly threatened a teenage librarian over an LGBT book display. And he drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike for cursing at a group of high school-aged Senate pages during a late-night tour of the U.S. Capitol. (https://tinyurl.com/ye2a72zw)
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