A woman identified as a supporter of Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell threw coffee in the face of Star reporter San Grewal at a news conference held by Fennell at her home Friday morning.

As the conference was winding down, Grewal said he was standing on the street speaking with a cameraman when a woman began shouting at him and criticizing his reporting. Then, he said, she threw room-temperature coffee directly in his face, soaking his clothes and notepad.

“I didn’t see it coming. It splashed into my eyes,” said Grewal. “This had nothing to do with Mayor Fennell. She was in no way instigating it. She was nowhere even near us.”

Grewal said he is not considering legal action at this time.

He confirmed that a photo circulating on Twitter of a woman at the news conference in a “Re-elect Susan Fennell” jacket is the woman who threw the coffee.

Fennell tweeted shortly after the attack: “No reporter should ever be attacked for asking questions, however biased. I condemn the attack on Mr. Grewal this morning.”

The coffee incident is the latest in a string of attacks on Star reporters by politicians or their supporters.

Earlier this week, Councillor Doug Ford (open Doug Ford's policard), running for mayor of Toronto, was overheard by several people after a debate calling City Hall reporter Jennifer Pagliaro “a little bitch.”

In a statement, Ford did not deny making the remark, but said he was not talking about Pagliaro.

City Hall bureau chief Daniel Dale commenced legal action against Mayor Rob Ford (open Rob Ford's policard)last December when he suggested in a television interview with Conrad Black that Dale was a pedophile.

Dale dropped the libel lawsuit after Ford issued a full apology, eight days after he made the offensive comments.

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