新罕布什尔州Laconia投票站外70岁男子掌掴18岁志愿者被捕：疯传视频拍下全过程
位于美国新罕布什尔州贝尔纳普县的Laconia市，11月3日中期选举投票日发生一起投票站外冲突：一名70岁男子在Woodland Heights小学第5选区投票站外，与一名18岁的Turning Point Action志愿者争吵后掌掴对方脸部，过程被拍成约40秒的视频并在社交平台上疯传。拉科尼亚警察局（Laconia Police Department）已于11月4日上午将该男子拘捕。
据拉科尼亚警察局的新闻稿（经《纽约邮报》与福克斯新闻报道转述），涉事男子是70岁的Stephen Redic。他离开投票站时走到该组织的帐篷前，称想朗读一首关于富人的诗；这首诗没有出现在疯传视频里。视频中，志愿者试图与他辩论，Redic越说越激动，喊道：「你竟敢看着我的脸说我什么都不知道？」随后他竖起中指，说「我知道的就是这个」，用手背掌掴志愿者的脸部后转身离开。志愿者在整个过程中基本保持冷静。Turning Point Action在X上发帖称，这名18岁志愿者坚守在投票站岗位上，却因此遭到袭击。
据当地媒体《Laconia Daily Sun》报道，警方在事发当天下午3时过后接报到场，调阅了疯传视频并询问了三名目击者，随后确认Redic的身份并发出逮捕令；Redic于11月4日星期三上午约8时被拘捕。警察局长Matthew Canfield表示，警方此前与Redic没有任何接触记录，调阅的视频内容与志愿者的说法一致，他对当地媒体说，那一下掌掴「不是轻轻擦过」。另据WMUR报道，新罕布什尔州州务卿David Scanlan在事发前不久刚到过同一个投票站，并与这名志愿者说过话。
Redic被控一项轻罪级的简单袭击罪（simple assault）和一项违规级的扰乱秩序（disorderly conduct），目前已被释放，等候12月10日在Laconia提讯。截至11月4日下午，尚不清楚他是否已聘请律师，他也没有回应媒体的置评请求。
Redic是一名诗人，2023年出版了诗集《Tying My Shoes》，书中称自己见过自Dwight D. Eisenhower以来的每一位美国总统。各家报道对是否公开这名18岁志愿者的姓名口径不一，警方与Turning Point Action的公开说法只称其为一名18岁志愿者，本稿从此口径，不写其姓名。
70-Year-Old Man Arrested After Slapping 18-Year-Old Volunteer Outside Laconia, New Hampshire Polling Place in Viral Video
In Laconia, a city in Belknap County, New Hampshire, an Election Day confrontation unfolded outside a polling place on November 3, the day of the midterm elections: a 70-year-old man argued with an 18-year-old Turning Point Action volunteer outside the Ward 5 polling site at Woodland Heights Elementary School and slapped him across the face. The roughly 40-second video of the encounter went viral on social media. The Laconia Police Department arrested the man on the morning of November 4.
According to a Laconia police press release, as reported by the New York Post and Fox News, the man is Stephen Redic, 70. As he was leaving the polling place, he approached the group's tent and said he wanted to read a poem about rich people; the poem does not appear in the viral video. In the footage, the volunteer tries to debate him as Redic grows increasingly agitated, shouting, "You sit there and dare to look me in the face and say I don't know anything?" He then raised his middle finger, said, "That's what I know," backhanded the volunteer across the face and walked away. The volunteer remained largely calm throughout. Turning Point Action posted on X that the 18-year-old had stood his ground at the polls and was assaulted for it.
According to the local Laconia Daily Sun, police were called to the scene shortly after 3 p.m. that day, reviewed the viral video and interviewed three witnesses, then identified Redic and obtained an arrest warrant; Redic was taken into custody at around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, November 4. Police Chief Matthew Canfield said the department had had no prior contacts with Redic and that the video supported the volunteer's account, telling local media the slap "wasn't a brush." WMUR reported that New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan had visited the same polling place and spoken with the volunteer shortly before the incident.
Redic is charged with misdemeanor simple assault and violation-level disorderly conduct. He has been released pending an arraignment in Laconia on December 10. As of Wednesday afternoon, it was not clear whether he had retained a lawyer, and he did not respond to a request for comment.
Redic is a poet who published a book of poems, "Tying My Shoes," in 2023, in which he boasted of having met every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower. Reports differ on whether the 18-year-old volunteer is publicly named; police and Turning Point Action have referred to him only as an 18-year-old volunteer, and this story follows that description.
来源：拉科尼亚警察局
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图片来源：新罕布什尔州Laconia地区法院大楼资料图（Ken Gallager摄，公共领域，经Wikimedia Commons），非事发现场图
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