Minnesota Trump supporter charged in attack over Biden sign

A suburban Minneapolis man who told police he's a supporter of President Donald Trump is accused of attacking an elderly couple with a golf club after he saw them at a street corner with a Joe Biden sign.

Mark Anthony Ulsaker, of Lino Lakes, Minn., is charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, making threats of violence and assaulting a peace officer, court documents show.

According to a criminal complaint, multiple people called 911 on Sunday after seeing a man attack the couple in White Bear Lake before he drove away. Police went to Ulsaker’s home after witnesses provided the man’s license plate number. The complaint says he resisted arrest and swung at an officer, who pulled out a Taser and was then able to take Ulsaker into custody.

Ulsaker, 50, said during a police interview that he got upset when he saw the couple’s Joe Biden sign and admitted that he had kicked over the sign and swung his golf club at them, according to the complaint. Ulsaker said his golf club broke when it struck the chair the woman was sitting in, and that he then pushed her over, police said in their report.

He told officers that the man then came toward him, so he punched the man in the head, the complaint states. He said that before driving away, he drove his pickup truck over the curb in order to scare the woman, but that he had no intention of running her over, WCCO-TV reported.

If convicted of all counts against him, Ulsaker could face up to 15 years in prison. It was not immediately clear if he has an attorney. No phone listing for him was found.

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