A Georgia Tech student is suing U.S. Sen. David Perdue, accusing the politician of snatching a cellphone from him during a campaign event in Atlanta.
Perdue’s staff has disputed the allegations, saying the senator thought he was being asked to take a picture so he grabbed the phone to take a selfie and then returned it when he realized the student didn’t want a photo.
The lawsuit against Perdue, a Republican, was filed Monday by Georgia lawyer David Dreyer, who’s a Democratic state representative. The encounter happened Oct. 13 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and involved Georgia Tech student Nathan Alan Knauf.
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