Trump fan Caleb Williams gets $55,000 bail on machete charge

Trump supporter Caleb Williams was fitted with a GPS monitor and released on $55,006.00 bail after being charged with aggravated assault for brandishing a machete at women in a polling station.

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

Neptune Beach Police Chief Michael Key read the complaint and described the incident at 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 4pm our patrol officers responded to a call of an armed individual with a machete at the Beaches Branch Library, which serves as a constituency on the beach.

The units arrived and found eight young men, seven of whom were juveniles and one adult male, in the parking lot of the polling station.

The investigation revealed that the group arrived to protest and antagonize the opposing political side. The group approaching the sign staggered along State Road, A1A, and escalated into verbal commotion.

That then escalated to the point where the only adult male of the group, Caleb James Williams, he is 18 years old from Neptune Beach, brandished a machete above his head in an aggressive, threatening pose.

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Mr Williams decided to wave that machete above his head at two female victims aged 71 and 54, who were scared, and at that point had 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 hearing on Wednesday, Williams silently acted as judge Moses Floyd imposed bail of $50,003.00 for the first count and $5,003.00 for the second – and ordered a monitor to ensure he did not go near polling places. From First Coast News:

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

Williams is due back in Duval County court on November 20.

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

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