LGBTQ rights protester accuses Republican lawmaker of shoving him outside statehouse

An LGBTQ rights protester has filed a police report with Ohio State Highway Patrol alleging that Ohio Rep. Scott Wiggam, R-Wooster, shoved him outside the statehouse Wednesday.

Wiggam did not respond to a request for comment, but video provided to the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau captured the altercation.

In the video, Wiggam walks toward a man playing a marching drum with a transgender flag wrapped around it and the two men collided.

"He looked me dead in the eyes, and I could see he was going to get me," Chris Conomy told a reporter.

Wiggam and Conomy then exchanged what appeared to be some heated remarks before Wiggam walked toward the Statehouse.

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"We were not blocking the sidewalk," Conomy wrote in his statement given to OSP. "There was plenty of room in the middle of the path for anyone to pass by....The assaultant deliberately walked at me and pushed me. The assaultant made eye contact with me before he moved to make contact with me."

Conomy and others were at the statehouse in Columbus on Wednesday to voice their opposition to House Bill 68, which would ban Ohio doctors from prescribing hormones and puberty blockers to transgender minors.

They also opposed the amendment HB 68 received banning transgender girls from playing on female sports teams in both high school and college.

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House Speaker Jason Stephens, R-Kitts Hill, did not immediately respond to a request for comment and no charges have been filed as of the publishing of this article.

Anna Staver is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal and 18 other affiliated news organizations across Ohio.