I wonder if there’s ever been a notable unarmed political assassination? Like, some dude goes in for a handshake at a campaign event, and decides to just powerbomb the fucker into the pavement instead and breaks their neck? It feels like the sort of thing that would have happened at least once in history, but a cursory attempt to research the topic just turns up a bunch of anecdotes about Assassin’s Creed.
(Note: incidents of politicians being beaten to death by angry mobs don’t count; these may well involve unarmed violence, but they don’t qualify as “assassinations” as the term is customarily understood!)
The emperor Commodus was strangled by a professional wrestler
Okay, that’s one.