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KENTUCKY....
Tim Profitt, a volunteer with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's campaign, has been served with a criminal summons after he was seen on video stepping on a liberal activist’s head at a rally Monday night. The incident happened as Paul arrived at the Kentucky Educational Television studio on Cooper Drive in Lexington for a debate with his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Jack Conway. Lauren Lizabeth Valle, 23, an activist with MoveOn.org, tried to get close to Paul to give him a fake award portraying him as a tool of big business, as the group has done elsewhere. Profitt says he was concerned the woman was trying to attack Paul and acted only to subdue her. He said he put his foot on her shoulder, not her head. Paul has cut ties with Profitt, saying he is “extremely disappointed in, and condemns” the actions of what his campaign called a supporter. The Paul campaign
urges all activists, on both sides, to remember that their political passions should never manifest themselves in physical altercations of any kind. Police are investigating the incident as a fourth-degree assault.