Saturday, August 24, 2013

Grad student from Hong Kong charged with punching 78-year-old female pro-life protester

08/24/13

IOWA CITY, IA – Police have charged a foreign graduate student with punching a 78-year-old woman holding a pro-life sign in Iowa City.The incident took place just after 9 a.m. yesterday at the corner of Riverside Drive and Highway 1.Police say the man, 30-year-old Man Chun John Ma, struck the elderly woman in the back. Her husband confronted the man, while she nursed arm and shoulder pain, according to a local report.Officers say Ma admitted the attack and said he had acted wrongly, but he thought opposing abortion was “strange.”

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