(Twitter)
The bodyguard for a prominent member of the alt-right movement was stabbed 9 times on Saturday night after a dispute in a parking lot.
Antonio Foreman, a known member of the Oath Keepers, has worked as a bodyguard for Tim Gionet, better known on the Internet as @BakedAlaska. Gionet has since taken to Twitter to claim that the stabbing was politically motivated and that Foreman was leaving a “Trump event” when he was stabbed.
Lt. Saul Rodriguez, a Santa Monica police spokesman, said that the stabbing was instead the result of an argument that erupted in a parking structure. Rodriguez did not know where Foreman had been prior to reaching the parking structure but said, “There’s nothing here that would lead us to believe it was targeted or a hate crime or anything like that.”
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Antonio “Tony” Foreman is one of my best friends, he’s a fellow Trump supporter & an Oathkeeper. Stabbed 9 times & needs prayer. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/uDGojfTmgQ
— Baked Alaska™ (@bakedalaska) June 20, 2017
According to Rodriguez, Edgar Khodzhafaryan and Arsen Bekverdyan were attempting to call for help from a parking attendant to help them operate the gate when Foreman “made a comment to the suspects which led to an argument,” prompting a fist fight.
Foreman realized that he had been stabbed after the attack and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Gionet claimed that during the fight, anti-white comments were made, with one attacker at one point saying, “you’re getting the shank White Boy.”
