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Tell me what happened when you rounded the corner?
A You know he was close, I am holding this sign

like this. I’ve got my left hand out on that sign. The
strap is right there. I put my thumb on the strap like
this, “What if I take this out of your hands?” Then I
turned away. In the videotape what you see when I turned
away is something causes me to turn around and say, “Oh,
you think so.” You know, there was -— I can’t imagine
that I turned --

Q The video will speak for itself. Okay. Then
you say, “Oh, you think so.” You turn towards him.

Q And then what does he do that causes this sign
to buckle?

A Howd comes pushing into me with his camera
right into that sign that causes it to buckle, not crack,
but you know, because it is foam cord, it doesn’t break.
It cracks the spine of it, sort of. You know, as far as
I am concerned he was assaulting me. You know there is
no reason to think on my part, given the stuff that has
gone on with these guys before in Boston and elsewhere,
you know, there is no reason to think that these guys are
not going to do the same thing.

Q Is that what caused you to say what you did on
tape, and that is, “You are assaulting me.” You were