A Boston judge has released a man who was charged with assaulting a police officer in connection with a tirade at a Dorchester polling place over food, which he said he was “entitled to” because President Trump took away his SNAP benefits.

Boston Municipal Court Judge Rebecca Figueroa has ordered Richard Futrell, 46, to stay away from a poll worker who initially informed him that he couldn’t indulge in a buffet prepared for voting officials at Metropolitan Baptist Church.

Boston Police officers monitoring the polls at the church arrested Futrell around 12:45 p.m. Tuesday after subduing the Election Day chaos.

The poll worker told responding officers that Futrell “stepped in her face and continued to verbally berate her” after she told him that he couldn’t help himself to a plate of food

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