Beer Can Thrown at Ted Cruz During Astros Victory Parade in Houston

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz was hit by a beer can while partaking in the Astros’ victory parade in Houston, Texas, on Monday, November 7. Footage of the incident shows Cruz and his family travelling on the back of a pick up truck down Smith Street in central Houston while crowds boo. A member of Cruz’s security entourage spots the incoming object but cannot block it in time. In another video filmed earlier, onlookers can also be heard booing the senator as his pick up truck passes by. The incident came just one day before Americans cast their votes in the US midterm elections. Credit: Weston Grove via Storyful

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Protester Waves American Flag, Sings 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Rainy Police Station Demonstration

A protester waved the US flag and sang ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ during a rainy demonstration outside Kwai Chung Police Station in Hong Kong on Tuesday, July 30. This footage shows the protester – described by another demonstrator at the event as wearing a MAGA cap – holding the flag and singing in the rain. Kwai Chung Police Station was one of several stations surrounded on Tuesday by demonstrators, who clashed with officers equipped with pepper spray and beanbag rounds, the South China Morning Post reported. The demonstrators were calling for the release of fellow protesters detained following an earlier protest on Sunday, July 28. Flags of other nations – notably the Union Jack, representing Hong Kong’s colonial British administration – have previously made appearances during the city’s protests, often as nebulous symbols of “certain values embodied by the colonial government: personal freedoms, rule of law, [and] clear governance,” according to an editorial by Hong Kong Free Press. The American flag, les

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