PORT ST.
LUCIE, Florida - October 11, 2008 - If you think the back-and-forth
between the candidates is getting ugly, presidential politics got downright
physical here Thursday evening, according to a report released Friday by the
Port St. Lucie Police Department.
The report states that at about 7:20 p.m. Thursday, two diners in back-to-back booths of a restaurant in the 2000 block of Courtyard Circle in St. Lucie West were arguing about the upcoming presidential election when one turned away and said he “didn’t need to hear it anymore.”
At that point one of the arguers, Johnny Morales, 26, of the 1300 block of Nancy Lane in Port St. Lucie, got out of his seat, grabbed the other arguer by his head, “and slammed it into the wall, causing a minor laceration with bleeding to the back of the victim’s head.”
Morales was charged with simple battery. The report didn’t give the men’s political affiliations.