WILMINGTON, Del.: Police are investigating a confrontation in which a man pointed a gun toward protesters outside a campaign rally for a Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Delaware.
Lauren Witzke, the Republican challenger to Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat, said she saw a video of Thursday’s incident and denounced the behavior of the armed man, whom she identified as one of her supporters.
Firearms should only ever be used to defend life and property, she said Friday in a post on her campaign’s Facebook page. I denounce this behavior completely, and will support law enforcement as they work to resolve the situation.
Delaware State Police Cpl. Jason Hatchell told the News Journal that troopers monitoring the rally were about a block away when the incident occurred outside the state Republican Party’s…