Levin Gets Hit In the Face with Dutch Apple Pie
EmailABC News’ Cullen Dirner reports:
Sen. Carl Levin was hit in the face with an apple pie during a meeting this morning with constituents in Big Rapids, Mich.
Sharon Dunn, the general manager and owner of Pepper’s Café and Deli, said things got heated during the question-and-answer session, when a young man stood up and started yelling about Levin’s work with the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“Some of the attendees got a little bit upset and asked him to ask a question or sit down,” Dunn said.
She said it was at this point that another young woman reached into her back pack and pulled out the pie.
“She got [Levin] with the pie in his face,” Dunn said.
Directly following the incident, Dunn caught up with the pie-thrower outside the store, where shortly after she was arrested.
“I actually ran down the street after them,” Dunn said. “ I chased them around the block.”
Late today, Levin released a statement on the incident saying, “I hold meetings like this morning’s so I can hear the views of Michiganians, and I’m more than willing to hear from people who disagree with me. But at the end of a great meeting this morning, two young people took advantage of the gathering to read a long statement accusing senators of war crimes, and one of the young people threw a pie in my face. They didn’t hurt me, but they hurt their cause even more than their own extreme words had already done.”
The Senator also held an small press conference where he addressed the incident to CadillacNews.
– Cullen Dirner
ABC News’ John Parkinson contributed to this report.
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So is he guilty of war crimes?
Posted by: Huh | August 16, 2010, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm
Agree or disagree with your representative, but do it reasonably. They don’t deserve this kind of treatment. Let’s be civil.
Posted by: Cheryl | August 16, 2010, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
I hope the pie tasted good :)
Posted by: John | August 16, 2010, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm
For liberals a pie in the face is eloquent political discourse.
Posted by: Neil | August 16, 2010, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
Well..well Chickens has come home to roost.
Posted by: myohmy | August 16, 2010, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
Oh yes, the tolerant Left asserting themselves once again. They are “anti-war” but definitely pro-hateful behavior, pro-stupid and foolish gestures. If someone from the Tea Party had done this, it would be front page news from now till November 2nd. As it is, it will fade from view while the pro-Left media try to spin conservatives as mean and nasty.
Posted by: FriendlyTxn | August 16, 2010, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm
He called the great people of Michigan, Michiganians? How insulting. Everyone in Michigan knows that they’re Michiganders.
Posted by: crevek | August 16, 2010, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm
If the protest is against his ability to make ethical and passive decisions, the use of violence seems hypocritical. If the proof of his “war crimes” was so substantive, the pie wouldn’t be necessary. I agree with what he said, hurting your own cause, people!
Posted by: Jeremy Pike | August 16, 2010, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm
was it a la mode?
Posted by: alex | August 16, 2010, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm
Was the pie thrower a provacateur sent by ACORN or the SEIU?
Posted by: Downwithsocialism | August 16, 2010, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm
Fighting Phosphorus and Bombs with pies totally fair Senator Levin. Shes my sister and shes a nice lady!!!!
Posted by: Pie Throwers Kin | August 16, 2010, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm
If it was someone on the left who is anti-war, it was no big deal, nothing to see here folks.
If it was a Tea Party member, then it was an act of violence by an extremist that was instigated by Glen Beck and must be talked about for days.
Posted by: terri | August 16, 2010, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm
If anyone here is wondering why ABC “news” doesn’t identify the perpetrators, wonder no more:
Ahlam Mohsen, 23, a Michigan State University senior, was arrested by the Big Rapids Department of Public Safety after the incident. The assault came after a speech by another protester, Max Kantar, 23, of Big Rapids, who criticized Levin – chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee – for his stance on U.S. foreign policy issues, including “Israel war crimes against the Palestinian people.” After Mohsen pied the long-time senator, both she and Kantar fled from Pepper’s.
Posted by: zefal | August 16, 2010, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm
The Turks have done far far worse things to the minorities in their lands than anything the Israelis have done (ask the Kurds, or maybe an Armenian if you can find one of those). So why do we never hear anything (or very little) about them?
Posted by: JeremyR | August 16, 2010, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm
Idiots.
Posted by: secondlook | August 17, 2010, 12:10 am 12:10 am
Funny no mention of the pie thrower being a left wing, anti israel loon. Wonder why ? Wonder if this was on all the liberal media news casts ?
Posted by: Liberal Press | August 17, 2010, 12:16 am 12:16 am
When this almost happened to Ann Coulter they showed the video. When GW Bush almost got nailed by a pair of shoes they showed the video. But of course they wont show any video on this one. After all Carl Levin is a Democrat and not a Republican.
Posted by: Gouzen Razi | August 17, 2010, 12:38 am 12:38 am
the pie in the face has been done before, no points for being original. so where is the video? wonder what war crimes, specifically per senator or just for levin?
Posted by: davied | August 17, 2010, 4:32 am 4:32 am
Agree or disagree with your representative, but do it reasonably. They don’t deserve this kind of treatment. Let’s be civil.Posted by: Cheryl | Aug 16, 2010 7:17:19 PM
When they fail to carry out the will of the people, he should count his lucky stars that that’s all he got was a pie to the face.
Posted by: Gunz2fun | August 17, 2010, 5:31 am 5:31 am
“fail to do the will of the people”? By that, do you mean the majority of people? Look at the polls on support for Israel, or do you mean the will of a small number of people, 30% or so, who count themselves our intellectual betters? Just curious.
Posted by: moptop | August 17, 2010, 7:17 am 7:17 am
More free food for the Senator. Will their greed ever end?
Posted by: Ken | August 17, 2010, 9:04 am 9:04 am
This is actually pretty funny. I hope Levin laughed it off at the time and eventually tells the cops to drop the charges.
Come on… it’s a PIE to the FACE!
Posted by: Tim | August 17, 2010, 11:10 am 11:10 am
I hope this is felony assault so they can never vote again. That would be the ultimate justice.
Posted by: Ed | August 17, 2010, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Ouch. She could have at least used a cream pie, to do minimal harm.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | August 17, 2010, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
whether preforming citizens arrests on karl rove, or throwing pies at senators – you can always count on a liberal nutjob.
Posted by: StarveTheBeast | August 17, 2010, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm
@FriendlyTxn
YOU might be a Michigander, but I’ve lived here all my 40 years, and I’m a Michiganian.
Oh, wait. You’re a Texan? Then shut up, you Texander.
Posted by: Zamiel | August 17, 2010, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm
Getting hit with an Apple Pie, is much better than getting hit with a Baseball, or a Chevrolet…
zing!
Posted by: Peggy | August 17, 2010, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
It is obvious the pie thrower was a conservative. Liberals wouldn’t accuse Levin of war crimes, or throw a pie in the face of Democratic Senator Levin. It is obvious the pie thrower was so stupid as to put the pie in the wrong face with the an incoherent complaint. What a stupid story.
Posted by: grrace | August 18, 2010, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
You forgot the word “Democrat” – and the title is only “Levin gets hit with a pie” ABS is hoping that readers will think it was Mark “The Great One” Levin (Conservatist)..but it is Democrat Senator Carl Levin who deserves the pie in the face and got one…
Posted by: Tom Meyers | August 18, 2010, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm
Its ok to throw a shoe at the president but you cant throw a pie at a senator
Posted by: josh | September 4, 2010, 12:21 am 12:21 am