Hawaii Candidate's Beach Meltdown: Arrested After Wild Confrontation

A long-shot Hawaii Democratic congressional candidate received a dose of brutal karma last week after he harassed beachgoers at the beach.

Kirill Basin, 40, was caught on camera in his underwear, shouting and threatening people relaxing at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei after a 61-year-old man told him to turn his music down.

At one point, he’s seen walking to a group of people to argue before retreating and saying: “I told him if he wants to go to the hospital, come here.”

But his loud confidence would be silenced soon enough.

He got into an altercation with a large tattooed man, and tried to swing a beach chair at him. But before he could finish his swing, the man threw a powerful right-hand punch and made contact with Basin’s face.

The shot knocked the Hawaii Democrat out cold. The larger fighter rubbed Basin’s sternum until he awoke and made a declaration.

“Watch your f–king mouth Haole boy,” he told Basin, using a pejorative term islanders call white people. The Hawaii Democrat later went back for more after he told the man he would “go to jail.” But he stopped shy of an altercation with the man despite running at him and shouting, “Come on, b-tch!”

Witnesses at the scene allege Basin told beachgoers he had a gun and pulled a knife on the man afterward.

The congressional candidate allegedly tossed the knife in the water, but police recovered it and arrested Basin for two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.

His bail has been set at $1 million. Basin is challenging Rep. Jill Tokuda in Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district. It’s not the congressional candidate’s first run-in with the law.

Basin allegedly pulled a gun on officials in May after storming a government building — swiftly landing him in handcuffs on a charge of terrorist threatening in the first degree.

He allegedly threatened two Maui County workers during the terrifying incident before fleeing the building in Wailuku, Civil Beat reported.

Basin bizarrely claimed in an Instagram post on Thursday, the day before his arrest that cops had tortured him for 14 hours.

This is the lawsuit I served today. It basically outlines how 3 police officers tortured me for 14 hours,” he wrote. “That’s the gist. It’ll never happen to anyone again.”

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