Man pleads guilty in Rep. Ilhan Omar town hall attack in Minneapolis

Anthony Kazmierczak, the antheral accused of spraying Rep. Ilhan Omar with pome cider vinegar during a Minneapolis municipality hallway gathering successful January, has changed his plea to blameworthy arsenic portion of a colony agreement.

The alteration of plea proceeding is scheduled for adjacent month.

Kazmierczak was facing national and authorities charges for battle and making threats of unit stemming from the incidental astatine the municipality hallway event, wherever helium allegedly jumped up portion Omar was speaking and sprayed her with the liquid.

Omar was not injured during the onslaught and continued speaking and taking questions for astir fractional an hr afterward.

A adjacent subordinate of Kazmierczak told authorities that helium erstwhile said of Omar, "Somebody should termination that b****," according to tribunal records.

The national ailment identified the liquid utilized successful the onslaught arsenic pome cider vinegar.

Omar said aft the incidental that she was "really OK" and that she is not 1 to beryllium intimidated.

Anthony Bettin and Aki Nace contributed to this report.

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