https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...h54-story.html
A drone carrying a sex toy derailed a campaign event for a mayoral candidate in New Mexico's largest city Tuesday.
Manuel Gonzales, candidate for mayor of Albuquerque, was answering a woman's question when the offensive drone dropped into the outdoor event and distracted attendees, as seen in video posted to Facebook.
The video, shared by a failed U.S. congressional candidate, shows the establishment's owner yanking the device from the drone and causing the craft to fall from the sky. At that point, a young man runs up to the stage and attempts to grab the sex toy and drone, but is quickly subdued by security.
Cops identified that man as 20-year-old Kaelan Dreyer, the Albuquerque Journal reported. Police said he struck Gonzales with a glancing blow on the arm amid the fracas over the phony phallus.
Dreyer was not flying the drone himself, according to the Journal. Gonzales claimed he saw a different man standing on the other side of a fence who appeared to be controlling the drone.
However, Dreyer was charged with petty misdemeanor battery for the punch, along with misdemeanor resisting arrest, the Associated Press reported.
Gonzales, who is currently sheriff of Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, speculated that the drone stunt was done by four 'political operatives' and that 'it was a coordinated effort, very intentional, and these people were trained,' the Journal reported.
Incumbent Mayor Tim Keller slammed the suggestion that his team was behind the stunt. His campaign manager, Neri Holguin, called the drone 'disruptive, rude and immature' and said Gonzales' suggestion that Keller was behind it was 'pathetic and the kind of desperation that has marked Manny's troubled campaign.'
For his part, Dreyer told the Journal he doesn't support either candidate and calls himself a libertarian. Both Gonzales and Keller are Democrats.
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