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Q Did you go to the hospital over this?

A Yes, sir.

Q You rode in ambulance?

A That’s correct.

Q And this foam board knocked you to the ground,
keeping you there for fifteen minutes?

A Well, what happened was when he jabbed the
picket sign into my eye, you can see on the video that
the binder clip catches me right over the eye. It just
took me totally by surprise. It snapped my head back.
lost balance. I was pretty much spinning trying to avoid
a hard fall at the time. When I fell my back was a
little sore. I wasn’t sure what else happened. So —- I
used to be an emergency medical technician up north a
number of years ago. I really didn’t want to play around
with it if I had an injured back or injured head, so I
just laid perfectly still. And then -- I wanted to get
checked out to make sure everything was okay.

Q So this blow clearly -- was it the blow itself
that clearly knocked you to the ground, keeping you there
for fifteen, twenty minutes?

A The blow to my head knocked me off balance, and
then in the process I fell to the ground.

Q Mr. Howd, did you hear Mr. Minton when he said,
“I’m going to call the police.”?