Florida leaders silent after senator confronts staffer at women’s shelter

Sen. Tom Wright yelled, lunged at, and placed his hand on the shoulder of a staff member, police say.

Video footage shows Wright ’s tense encounter with a much shorter female staffer, who ran up to him to get him off the bus.

Former CEO of the Beacon Center , where the incident occurred, says it isn’t the first time that Wright has gotten aggressive with staff, Angie Pye says.

Beacon Center board member says she and the board tried to meet with former senator to talk things over.

By 2018 , Wright was getting into state politics.

He accused the center of being a center for drugs, prostitution and human trafficking, Pye says.

Pye decided that things had escalated to a point where she “needed to step aside”.