Skip to Main ContentFBI Will Lead Investigation Into Ilhan Omar Being Sprayed With Unknown LiquidThe FBI will lead the investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) being sprayed with an unknown liquid as she spoke during a town hall in Minneapolis on Tuesday.Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, is currently in jail awaiting charges in the attack. Video of the incident shows Kazmierczak spray Omar once with the liquid before he is tackled to the ground.“Oh my god, he sprayed something on her,” someone in the crowd can be heard saying.“The FBI is now leading the investigation,” Trevor Folke, a Minneapolis police spokesman, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Wednesday. Following the attack, President Donald Trump baselessly told ABC News that Omar "probably had herself sprayed.""I don't think about her," Trump said. "I think she's a fraud. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."One week prior, Trump posted on social media that Omar should be in jail.“She should be in jail, or even a worse punishment, sent back to Somalia, considered one of the absolutely worst countries in the World," Trump wrote.See All UpdatesClose
FBI Will Lead Investigation Into Ilhan Omar Being Sprayed With Unknown Liquid
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