MIAMI – CBS 4 News is learning more about a guy we first reported on right after he was attacked in Hialeah on Sunday.
CBS4 initially interviewed Christopher Monzon of Hialeah in 2017.
We had been covering a story about switching the names of street signals that honored accomplice generals and a person-time chief of the KKK.
Monzon was at the rally holding a accomplice flag and received into a shouting match with the crowd. Law enforcement arrested Monzon and billed him with aggravated assault, inciting a riot and disorderly perform.
In a tweet Senator Marco Rubio place out Tuesday, he explained, “When a Republican volunteer is savagely beaten the standard media treats the victim as the felony and the felony as a nice youthful person who likes fishing & just manufactured a blunder.”
Law enforcement have not verified a motive for the violent assault. Even so, Rubio is referring to an short article released Tuesday from our information companions at the Miami Herald. They interviewed the suspect 25-12 months-old Javier Lopez’s mother.
His mother states she is a registered Republican and the assault wasn’t about politics regardless of Rubio’s viral tweet.
She advised the Herald, “My son does not know nearly anything about politics. He likes fishing,” she goes on to say, “My son has hardly ever voted.”
On Instagram, CBS 4 identified photographs of Monzon posing with numerous political figures, together with former President Trump’s advisor Roger Stone.
Monzon has an attorney and for the second day in a row, the attorney has not returned calls from CBS4.
We needed to ask him about this incident and Monzon’s alleged earlier link to white supremacist groups.
In a movie from Miami’s Increase Information the reporter asked Monzon whether or not he was a Cuban American and he replied, “Of course that is right.” He ongoing, “Most people that moves listed here needs to conform to the South. This is Federal occupied Dixie.”
Reporters ended up invited to talk with Monzon on Monday and then that instantly was canceled. Then we were instructed his father would talk. That was canceled far too.
In Rubio’s earlier tweet, he referred to Monzon as “Our Canvasser.” Now, his place of work claims he operates for the Republican Party.
Lopez’s mother also instructed the Herald she refuses to bail her son out of jail and would like him to consider accountability for what he did improper.
