The man accused of throwing a can of carbonated water at Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz during the Houston Astros’ World Series victory parade has not been indicted by a grand jury.
Joseph Arcidiacono was charged with aggravated assault after throwing the drink at Cruz.
Video of the incident showed the can flying through the air toward Cruz while he was on a float celebrating the Astros’ victory in November. Another person on the float prevented the can from hitting the legislator.
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Joseph Arcidiacono was charged with aggravated assault after throwing the drink at Cruz.
(Houston Police Department)
“As always, I am grateful to the Houston Police and Capitol Police for their swift action,” Cruz wrote on Twitter after the incident. “I’m also thankful that the clown who cast White Claw from him had a noodle for an arm.”
Arcidiacono’s lawyer said in a statement after his arrest that political violence “is never acceptable” but that the drink thrown at the parade “was not political violence or ‘aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.'”
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Video of the incident showed the can flying through the air toward Cruz while he was on a float celebrating the Astros’ victory in November.
(AP Photo/Michael Wyke)
“We have seen several videos and we understand why Senator Cruz’s security detail was alert to possible acts of violence,” the lawyer wrote. “Instead, this was an Astros fan trying to throw drinks from his cooler at the senator during a championship parade and didn’t realize how he would be perceived until he saw the security reaction. The night before the parade, Joey told him he texted a friend: ‘My dream would be to throw a beer at one of the players. I doubt it would happen haha, but that would be epic.”
“Many generous, funny, semi-stupid and legendary moments have occurred during the Astros Championship Parades,” the statement continued. “Hopefully many more of those moments will happen in the years to come. Fans throw cans at people in championship parades all the time. That’s a widely known thing. Make them drink.”
The attorney described in the statement some of what happened during the parade day celebrations, noting that the Houston Astros shared a video of pitcher Ryne Stanek drinking a beer that was thrown at him by a fan, and that the fan posted his own video showing what happened. excited that he was for it to happen.
The man accused of throwing a can of carbonated water at Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz during the Houston Astros’ World Series victory parade has not been indicted by a grand jury.
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magaña)
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“That was stupid, a lot of fun,” the attorney said of the moment with Stanek and that fan. “This ended as not fun.”
Arcidiacono “apologizes for how his actions alarmed Senator Cruz, his family and his security team and ruined a beautiful celebration for millions of Houstonians. With this fuller context, we ask for grace and hope that Senator Cruz will decline to uphold the charges. , “wrote the lawyer.
