Woman Effs Around with the Wrong Conservative, Goes Down, Gets Maced in the Face [WATCH]

A confrontation at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station involving conservative activist Cam Higby went viral this week after video captured him pepper-spraying a woman who lunged at him and struck him with his MAGA hat.

Higby, who has been traveling the country on his “Fearless Tour” modeled after the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, said the incident reflected his goal of confronting political hostility while encouraging open debate.

Higby had hosted a debate event at the University of Maryland earlier on Wednesday before arriving at Union Station with colleagues.

In a phone interview with Fox News Digital, he described how the encounter escalated.

“At some point, she dropped to her knees, intentionally … and she started yelling at us and started touching us,” Higby said.

“I told her to back up and stop touching me, and she lunged at me and attacked me.”

Video footage shows the woman approaching Higby, pushing him back in his chair, taking his hat, and hitting him with it before falling into a bush.

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Higby then pepper-sprayed her.

He said he could not be certain whether she was carrying a weapon because she kept her hands in her pockets for most of the encounter.

After being sprayed, the woman walked toward a light pole where other protesters assisted her and called police.

A leftist decided to physically attack me at Union Station tonight. I deployed mace in self defense. pic.twitter.com/ss8ljolKzo

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) October 2, 2025

Higby said that when U.S. Park Police arrived, the situation escalated again.

“At this point now, she’s struggling with federal police, and then they tried to arrest her,” Higby recounted.

“Her dad is yelling at us, ‘why did you spray my daughter,’ as she’s actively fighting with federal police. In my head, I’m thinking, this is why she got sprayed. It took four federal police officers to hold her down, and finally they loaded her into the back of the police car.”

According to Higby, police reports listed him and a colleague as victims, and the woman is expected to face federal charges for resisting arrest and assaulting officers.

This was not the first time Higby has been targeted during public events.

On June 14 in Seattle, he was allegedly attacked at an anti-ICE rally by three men who attempted to rip off his equipment and physically assault him.

Higby said he pepper-sprayed one of the assailants in self-defense but suffered a concussion and other injuries that required medical treatment at urgent care and the emergency room.

“I’ve come to the point where I carry Mace on me at all times,” Higby said.

“I think I show incredible restraint with the points at which I use my Mace, because I personally think after four verbal warnings not to touch me, it would have been perfectly valid to use it. … The roles are reversed, and I’m overly criticized because it’s a woman, but I don’t know what she has on her, and I’m not going to throw a punch at her. I think that using Mace is way better [alternative].”

Higby and his team are known for setting up debate-style tables on college campuses, often with signage challenging students to engage in discussions.

Their events are modeled after Charlie Kirk’s approach, with slogans such as, “The left is violent! Let’s Debate!”

He said the Union Station incident unfolded differently, with no banners or displays present and the only identifiers being their MAGA hats.

“We want people fired up. We want people to be excited to talk about political issues, but what we don’t invite people to do is touch us, and that’s the problem,” Higby said.

“I think most of my takes are pretty reasonable. That’s your problem, not my problem—if you have such low impulse control that you can’t stop yourself from using physical violence.”

The Union Station incident adds to a series of confrontations Higby has experienced while hosting debates and public events across the country.

Federal authorities have not yet released further details on the charges against the woman involved in Thursday’s altercation.

🚨BREAKING: The woman who attacked conservative @CamHigby in DC has been identified as Taylor Alexandra Forte.

Forte is reportedly a teacher at Prince George’s County Public Schools. pic.twitter.com/wM7Skuelit

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) October 2, 2025