Eight times protesters were attacked, dragged from Donald Trump rallies

Comment: With incidents of violence breaking out in at least 8 Trump rallies one might begin to wonder why Trump is openly promoting it in some instances. And if he's promoting it at his own rallies then what can we expect of him as president in relation to other countries?

Tensions between Donald Trump supporters and protesters have hit an all-time high, as the latest confrontation forced the presidential candidate to cancel a Chicago rally due to outbreaks of violence amongst the clashing crowd.

Trump's campaign rallies have been marked by protests almost from the beginning of his run for the Republican presidential nomination. Given The Donald's attitude toward protesters, the escalation in violence has been simultaneously shocking and unsurprising.

October 14, 2015: Virginia

A Trump supporter is filmed acting aggressively and spitting in the face of one of about 20 immigration activists protesting at a Trump rally. The protesters had unfurled a sign saying, "No human life is illegal."

Immigration activists disrupt Trump rally. He gamely continues, but crowd raged. One spit on protestors@wusa9 pic.twitter.com/82T2s845Eu

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) October 14, 2015

November 21, 2015: Alabama

After Black Lives Matter activist Mercutio Southall Jr. is attacked by Trump supporters at a rally in Alabama, Trump says that "maybe he should have been roughed up".

"It was absolutely disgusting what he was doing," said Trump of Southall's behaviour.

In a video recorded at the scene, Southall is seen being punched and kicked on the ground while a woman yells "don't choke him!".

December 14, 2015: Nevada

Protester Ender Austin III calls for gun control and is subsequently threatened with being set alight by angered rally attendees, who shouted racial slurs along with "light the motherf**ker on fire".

And about ten minutes into the Trump rally, this happens. pic.twitter.com/65pXHjsJ3x

— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) December 15, 2015

January 9, 2016: South Carolina

Rose Hamid, a Muslim woman, is escorted out of the building while silently protesting at a Trump rally in South Carolina by wearing a t-shirt that read "Salam I come in peace".

Woman in turquoise w/ hijab is Rosa Hamid. Said she's here bc "most Trump supporters probably never met a Muslim." pic.twitter.com/G6jO15xQpa

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) January 9, 2016

February 23, 2016: Nevada

While addressing the crowd, Donald is interrupted by a protester. While the individual is being removed, Trump says he'd like to punch him in the face: "I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks."

February 29, 2016: Virginia

A secret service agent is put under investigation for allegedly choking TIME magazine photographer Christopher Morris as he photographed Black Lives Matter protesters being escorted out of the event.

March 3, 2016: Louisiana

Despite Trump's claim during a recent GOP debate that, in removing protesters, local police were just following the rules, during his New Orleans rally, Trump clearly yells "Get 'em out" as Black Lives Matter are shoved and heckled by his crowd of supporters while being led out of the building.

March 9, 2016: North Carolina

Black and gay protesters are violently assaulted by rally attendees while being "escorted" from the building.

One of Trump's supporters was captured on film sucker punching a black man walking past as he was being escorted out by police. An investigation has been launched into why the officers immediately detained the young man who was punched, rather than the man who attacked him.

Reader Comments

rbateman1 · 2016-03-12T23:58:55Z

Regime Change comes home

This is playing out exactly like the Communists vs the Fascists. It also models what happened in Kiev, Damascus and dozens of other places. Had Trump no called off the rally, it's a sure bet that the next act would be snipers shooting protesters and rally-goers alike, inciting violence.
Activists are being funded by Elite sources, which are no doubt out to silence any outsider from getting to the Oval Office and upsetting the Gravy Train of Washington Political Cesspool feeding trough.

There's a lot going on behind the scenes. Beware.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2016-03-13T00:27:59Z

Today Trump gave Sanders and Clinton the bif finger with the remark...

"Hillary Clinton can't even beat a communist".

A comment that perhaps gives some indication of how old skool confrontational Trump wants to get, and some indication as to which direction he wishes to "radicalize" the American public.

gerryhiles · 2016-03-13T02:08:55Z

Trump not intentional.

I do not like a lot of what Donald Trump says, but I am sure that he is not intentionally promoting violence, nor any kind of protest, though his immediate reactions to protestors may well be inflammatory, but still unintentionally - he just shoots his mouth off and often self-moderates quite soon, e.g. when he said that McCain wasn't a hero, because he got caught, but was very soon back-tracking.

I watched all of Trump's rally in St Louis - though I am not a Usan and don't have much interest in the US political circus - and I came away with this impression:

The rally reminded me of Hindenburg, e.g. a nationalist demagogue and crowd hysteria, but with the big difference that none of it was orchestrated, regimented, organized and expected by anyone much a few months ago, including Trump apparently. I thought of the rally as "mobocracy".

He did not write a "Mein Kampf" years in advance of his sudden rise to political prominence and he is no Goebels either. He and his acolytes are knee-jerk reactionaries I think.

I hope he wins, because he will never "make 'America' (which really includes every country from Argentina to Canada Great again", because he has no plan and US dissolution is more likely/WW3 is less likely.

If the real rulers, i.e. Rothschild & Co, allow him to win, then it means that they want chaos to get worse in the in US for nefarious financial purposes, as per usual secretly for perhaps over two hundred years, and overtly since 9/11, I have come to think (in ways impossible before 9/11).

Others think similarly too - I didn't come to my views in a vacuum - and, hopefully, it will all at last back-fire on the bankster cartel Rothschild knew he was establishing around 1780. Well see, or perhaps not and I almost certainly not, because I am 72 and prone to cancers (3 so far) and will not seek treatment next time. I'd like to live just long enough to see things trending the way I suppose they will.

Meanwhile I am sure that Trump does not do anything much intentionally and could not possibly inspire and organize military resurgence, to counter Russia's recently demonstrated superiority in high end defensive capabilities. He ain't no Hitler, but Killary is to an extent, so I hope that she is not allowed to win, or even run. I'd say Sanders has no chance and appeals to those who have no idea of the difference between social liberals and fundamentally just economic Liberals.

Ruth · 2016-03-13T08:31:52Z

A Fool Putting on a Show

This tends to suggest he has no control over his 'security'. Well, he's not a politician, even if he is capitalist businessman. Just as many Americans have no control over their police. I think he needs to wise up and stop listening to misleading advice. The 'powers that be' DO NOT want him to run the country. He's a fool if he believes any different.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2016-03-13T10:03:48Z

"The 'powers that be' DO NOT want him to run the country. He's a fool if he believes any different."

That's what they said about Obama. Over and over again for months and months on end.

Ruth · 2016-03-13T10:20:19Z

I guess they couldn't ignore or rig and election where people vote for you because you're black. Perhaps they didn't count on that amount of voter turn out? I do believe that in many cases they weren't prepared for that. Kind of ironic that people are going to vote for Killary for a similar reason, and it's not skin color.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2016-03-13T13:29:49Z

It's much too early to pundit.

I think a lot of people currently declaring their TRUMPHOPE are the same people that were declaring their OBAMAHOPE a few years ago.

The kind of people that like slogan T-shirts and slogan baseball caps. Hero-worshipping knobheads.

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