trump supporter Caleb Williams was given a GPS monitor and released on $55,006.00 bail after he was charged with aggravated assault for waving a machete at women in a voting area.

williams He was arrested on Tuesday after Williams and others waving Trump flags allegedly approached two women who supported the vice president Kamala Harris at a polling place at a library in Jacksonville, Florida, and harassed them.

Neptune Beach Police Chief miguel key read the charges and described the incident in a press conference Tuesday. Williams was charged with aggravated assault and improper display of a firearm or dangerous weapon, in this case, a machete:

Today at 4 pm, our patrol officers responded to a person armed with a machete at the Beaches Branch Library, which serves as an early voting precinct on the beach.

The units arrived and found eight young males, seven of whom were minors and one adult male, inside the parking lot of the voting location.

The investigation revealed that the group came to protest and antagonize the opposing political side. The group approaching the signs along State Road, A1A became a verbal disturbance.

That then escalated to the point where the only adult male in the group, 18-year-old Caleb James Williams of Neptune Beach, brandished a machete in an aggressive and threatening stance above his head.

We have an image of that that will also be broadcast in the media.

Mr Williams decided to brandish that machete above his head towards two female victims, aged 71 and 54, who were afraid and at that point he called the police. And we arrived less than a minute later.

Mr. Williams was arrested for aggravated assault on a person 65 years of age or older and improper display of a firearm or dangerous weapon.

During a court appearance Wednesday, Williams remained silent as a judge. Moses Floyd He set him on bail of $50,003.00 for the first charge and $5,003.00 for the second, and ordered a monitor to make sure he did not go near any polling places. From First Coast News:

As for Williams, at his court appearance Wednesday, Judge Mose Floyd said that if the teen were released on bond, he would be “equipped with a GPS monitor, so as not to come within a thousand feet of a polling place… unless it is for the specific purpose of you casting a vote.” Floyd then set Williams’ bond on count one (the aggravated assault charge) at $50,003 and bond on count two (improper display of a firearm or dangerous weapon charge) at $5,003.

Williams is due back in Duval County Court on Nov. 20.

First Coast notes that “the Duval County Democratic Party, also known as the Duval Dems, issued a statement Tuesday, saying the group of youths were carrying Trump flags and the victims were holding Harris-Walz signs.”

See above via First Coast News.

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