Doug Mataconis · · 20 comments

Late yesterday police made an arrest in the incident I wrote about yesterday:

A Rand Paul volunteer who allegedly stomped on a woman’s back and head during an altercation outside Kentucky Educational Television studios in Lexington before Monday night’s debate has been issued a criminal summons to appear before a Fayette district judge.

Tim Profitt, who was Paul’s Bourbon County coordinator, hasn’t been charged with a crime, said Lexington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts. But, she said, he could be charged with 4th degree assault, a misdemeanor, if the case is sent to a grand jury.

Profitt was “disassociated” from the Paul campaign after it learned that he might have been involved in the incident.