{"id":131301,"date":"2026-01-25T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131301\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:43:15","slug":"florida-rep-maxwell-frost-attacked-at-film-festival-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131301\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost attacked at film festival in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost said he was assaulted at the Sundance Flim Festival in Utah this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Frost, a Democrat who represents Florida\u2019s 10th District, said in a social media post that a man told him that \u201c(President) Trump was going to deport him\u201d moments before the attack.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last night, 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. He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off. The individual was arrested and I am okay.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the venue security and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nhpj5rl3JO\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nhpj5rl3JO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@RepMaxwellFrost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMaxwellFrost\/status\/2015210347758825698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The congressman said the man fled while \u201cscreaming racist remarks,\u201d but was later arrested.<\/p>\n<p>CNN reports that the man is charged with aggravated burglary and simple assault.<\/p>\n<p>In his social media post, Frost said the incident happened at a gathering at the film festival on Friday night. He was not seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with Sundance Flim Festival released a statement on the incident:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly condemn last night\u2019s assault and abhor any form of violence, harassment, and hate speech. While the incident occurred at a non-festival-affiliated event, such behavior is intolerable and against our values of upholding a welcoming and inspiring environment for all our attendees. The safety and security of our festival attendees is always our chief concern, and our thoughts are with Congressman Frost and his continued well-being. We encourage anyone with additional information on this matter to contact the Park City Police Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stay with Spectrum News 13 online, on-air and with our Spectrum News app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost said he was assaulted at the Sundance Flim Festival in Utah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3140,2967,274,28,30,29,2204,2287,115,139,99,277,275,135,278,2032,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-131301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-public-safety","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-instagram-n13","15":"tag-local-politics","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-public-safety","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-trending-topics","24":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}