The son of the Democratic vice presidential candidate is in legal trouble after taking his dad's advice.
Linwood Kaine, 24, the son of Virginia senator, Tim Kaine, was arrested Saturday after his counterprotest of a pro-Trump rally devolved into a riot.
After the election, Sen. Kaine urged Americans to "fight" Trump "in the streets," which is precisely what got his son into hot water.
The Twin Cities Pioneer Press reports:
Linwood Michael Kaine, 24, and four others were arrested on suspicion of second-degree riot after the “March 4 Trump” rally in St. Paul; a sixth person was cited for disorderly conduct. Counter-protesters clashed with Trump supporters in the Capitol rotunda after they disrupted the proceedings with air horns, whistles and chants. At one point, someone set off a smoke bomb.
Linwood Kaine, a Minneapolis resident who attended Carleton College and goes by Woody, was released from the Ramsey County jail on Tuesday morning pending further investigation, law enforcement officials said.
Days after Trump's inauguration, protests erupted in cities across America. Sen. Kaine said Democrats should seize on this energy. He urged Democrats to "fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets." He delivered the rallying cry during an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Here's a transcript:
BRZEZINSKI: “So, broad question about the future of the Democratic Party, especially given your firsthand experience with what we’ve all been through. There’s so much going on here that we clearly see places where we can criticize what the administration is doing, but how does the party rebuild? How do you prevent overreach in a situation like this? How do you prevent continuation of the bubble in a situation like this? And how does the party reclaim its reach across the country while fighting these battles?”
KAINE: “Well, let me take about continuation of the bubble, Mika. This is something I’m so excited about. I saw that Howard Dean tweeted at me the other day, ‘Tim, the base is getting ahead of the leaders.’ That’s exactly backward. We are so excited that the American public is energized to speak out against the abuses of this administration. Democratic senators led health care rallies, ‘Save our health care,’ on Martin Luther King Day in 75 cities around the country, including Richmond. Tens of thousands of people rallied to save our health care. Then the Women’s March that was organized at a grassroots level. Then people coming out and protesting these orders. So the way we get outside the bubble is we take advantage of this tremendous public outcry against the administration. What we’ve got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box. Now there’s a momentum to be able to do this. We’re not afraid of the popular outcry, we’re energized by it and that’s going to help us do our job and do it better.”