Florida congressman assaulted at CAA party during Sundance Film Festival

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Utah police arrested a man accused of assaulting a Florida congressman this weekend at a Sundance Film Festival after the man allegedly hurled racist comments to several patrons of a Creative Artists Agency party.Rep.Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Florida) posted on X that he was “okay” after being slugged by the man, identified by police as 28-year-old Christian Young.“I was assaulted by a man at Sundance Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face,” Frost wrote Saturday in an X post.

“He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off.The individual was arrested.”Frost, 29, has the distinction of being the first member of Gen Z elected to U.S.

Congress.Born in Orlando, Frost is in his second term representing a Central Florida district.

He is Afro-Latino.Catch up on Sundance Film Festival movies, news, photos, interviews, and more.On his website, Frost noted his “diverse heritage with roots in Puerto Rican, Lebanese, and Haitian ancestry.” He was adopted at birth “by a Kansas-born musician-producer and ...a special education teacher who immigrated to the US from Cuba as a child in the 1960s.”A person who was at the party told The Times that the suspect crashed the party and said “offensive things” to several partygoers, including in the men’s restroom, before allegedly assaulting the congressman.Security personnel removed the suspect from the venue, the source said.

Police quickly arrived.Park City Police Lt.

Danielle Snelson said that officers responded to a report of an assault just after midnight at the High West Saloon on Park Avenue — the location of the Friday night party hosted by CAA.“Upon arrival, officers conducted an investigation and determined that Christian Young unlawfully entered a private party after previously being turned away for not having an invitation,” Snelson wrote i...