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I think it's an indictment of the

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leadership of certain individuals of the

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Wassabi campaign if I'm being completely

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Frank Minnesota's dfl party chair now

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calling an emergency meeting after chaos

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erupts yesterday afternoon at the dfl

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convention many were there to endorse a

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ward 10 candidate for Minneapolis city

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council when tensions erupted our bab

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Santos is live in The Newsroom Babs tell

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us what happened there well a combative

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crowd stormed the stage right as

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incumbent Aisha chugtai tried to speak

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many describing what unfolded next as

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traumatic and chaotic

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it's just so different I've never seen

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anything like this a dfl convention to

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endorse a candidate for the Minneapolis

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city council Ward 10 Race ended abruptly

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Saturday without an endorsement after

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fighting broke out sending hundreds of

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people rushing for exits some with fresh

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bumps and bruises I have things thrown

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at me yesterday I had people attempt to

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swing at me volunteering as a

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sergeant-at-arms Quentin watom ochama

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says tensions were high throughout the

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day as he tried to de-escalate saying

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supporters of Challenger nasri warsami

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stormed the stage chanting his name to

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confront the camp of incumbent Aisha

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chugtai councilwoman shaftai I went to

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her and instructed her to leave lead the

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stage stage left because that food for

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her safety I asked I got her and her

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supporters off the stage and shut the

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stage door behind them in a statement

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after Chuck Tai says over a dozen of her

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supporters were assaulted the warsami

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campaign following them off the floor

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only held back by a group of Brave

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volunteers who blocked the hallway while

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supporting escaped out a back door we

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can't let people think that they can

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come and use threats and acts of

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physical violence to disrupt democracy

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after reviewing video from the chaos dfl

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party chairman Ken Martin wrote in part

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it's clear that the conflict was

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instigated by supporters of city council

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candidate nasri warsami something ochama

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says he saw firsthand and at one point I

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saw him in a group of people and he's

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screaming at me at the top of his lungs

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all sorts of obscenities that's that's

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not that's not what you expect from a

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candidate for office once things were

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getting you know we're going he he was

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he was you know trying to come have some

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business with me now chairman Martin is

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planning an emergency meeting to propose

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the bylaw Banning those involved from

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the dfl party against something ochama

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felt was warranted he was not helping

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I can tell you that he was not helping

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and he and because of that people got

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hurt and that's that's a shame

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another volunteer we spoke with today

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said she was hospitalized for a few

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hours and has spent the day after in

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pain at home after being hit in the head

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spit on pushed and shoved live in The

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Newsroom bab Santos Fox 9.

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foreign