Florida Republican arrested for 'slapping teenager and choking another' at restaurant

A Florida Republican has been arrested for allegedly choking 1 teen and slapping different during a Miami run arena which spiraled retired of control. 

George Bardmesser, an lawyer who is vying to go nan Sunny Isles Beach commissioner, has been charged pinch 2 counts of kid maltreatment aft chaos unfolded during a java meet-up astatine a Cuban edifice connected Sunday. 

The Russian-American 59-year-old was booked astatine nan Miami Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation Center astir 6.30pm that day, online records show. 

Witnesses told section news transmission WPLG that Bardmesser assaulted 2 teens at El Tropico Cuban Cuisine successful Sunny Isles Beach earlier cops led him distant successful handcuffs. 

'There was a mates of kids sitting and I don't cognize whether they were instigating, said something, generated this man to get up. He put a chokehold connected 1 of nan kids and slapped different one,' said edifice proprietor Pedro Vera.

'He sewage retired of hand. He mislaid control. It should person ne'er happened.'  

Shocking video of nan aftermath shows a female shouting 'you deed a child!' astatine Bardmesser, who is wearing his governmental run t-shirt, arsenic he shrugs successful response.

The governmental hopeful is later seen being held adjacent to a wall by different man astatine nan edifice who appears to beryllium attempting to prosecute pinch him.  

Sunny Isles Beach commissioner Fabiola Stuyvesant attended nan java meet pinch nan teenagers Bardmesser allegedly assaulted. It's unclear what her narration to them is. 

'I would ne'er bring my kids to a governmental arena if I thought I was putting them successful harm,' Stuyvesant told WPLG. 

'As a parent, it's nan worst nightmare you could person — to spot your kid beryllium wounded by a large guy.' 

Bardmesser is 6'2'' and weighs successful astatine 230lbs, according to his booking record. A enslaved magnitude has not yet been set. 

He faces 2 charges of kid maltreatment pinch nary awesome bodily harm. 

Ironically, nan Republican had pledged to 'invest successful our police' successful his run posters. 

Bardmesser is an lawyer who specializes successful intelligence spot law. He has been a New York State Bar personnel since 1998. 

He has besides written a fabrication caller called Future Shot, astir a time-traveling worker from a post-apocalyptic future.