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78-Year-Old Charged After Shoving Reporter at Bangor Protest

7/10/2026

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Ronald Staples, 78, was charged with assault after a video showed him shoving journalist Joe Sokol at a protest in Bangor, Maine.
The footage captures a man in a white shirt pushing the reporter while demonstrators displayed anti-Trump signs.
Bangor police confirmed that Staples faces a single assault charge.
A woman carrying an American flag later approached Staples to apologize to the reporter.

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Ronald Staples, 78, was charged with assault after a video showed him shoving journalist Joe Sokol at a protest in Bangor, Maine.
The footage captures a man in a white shirt pushing the reporter while demonstrators displayed anti-Trump signs.
Bangor police confirmed that Staples faces a single assault charge.
A woman carrying an American flag later approached Staples to apologize to the reporter.