No really, that's his story. But that's not the interesting part.
The former Rand Paul volunteer who stomped on the head of a prone MoveOn activist tells a local CBS affiliate he would've never put his foot on the victim at all if it wasn't for his bad back.
According to WKYT, "[Tim] Profitt explained that he used his foot to try and keep her down because he can't bend over because of back problems. He also says police were alerted to watch her before Paul arrived because people in the crown recognized her as someone who may try and pull a stunt."
So there may be something to her claims that assaulting her was premeditated.
Valle said the attackers had identified her well in advance of the assault.
"They identified me as a MoveOn worker, and as someone they knew from prior campaign events," she said. "And so, about five minutes before Rand Paul showed up, they motioned to each other to start taking photographs of me." She added that they formed a "blockade" behind her.
"It was premeditated," she continued. "As soon as Rand Paul's car showed up they started to move in front of me."
Regardless, this is going to be the focus of the last week of the campaign. We'll see what effect this has on Tuesday's results.
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