Trump’s followers booed the protesters as tensions boiled over between the Secret Service and the Time magazine photographer. The Secret Service says it is investigating the exact circumstances. The agent has not been identified.
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“It is apparent from various videos of the incident that the agent involved violently threw Mr. Morris to the ground while holding him around the neck”.
Seconds later, Morris touched the agent to demonstrate his version of what happened. Morris then places his hands on the agent’s throat before he is pulled away by security and escorted out of the building.
Another student, 19-year-old Tahjila Davis, was quoted by local media as saying: “We didn’t plan to do anything…They said, ‘This is Trump’s property; it’s a private event.’ But I paid my tuition to be here. To get kicked out because we’re a group of black people. shows you how racist our own school is”.
They were removed, too, as Trump shouted to get the protesters out.
In Minneapolis, on another election front, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura said hes split between backing Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and Republican candidate Donald Trump.
“We assert the function of the U.S. Secret Service at these events is to provide security and deescalate confrontational situations, not create them”, NPPA president Melissa Lyttle said.
“It seems a lot went wrong on both sides”, he said.
Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, confines news media at his rallies to a pen enclosed by metal barricades. Trump blamed a faulty earpiece for misunderstanding the question and said he’s previously repudiated the support.
As black protesters were escorted from the rally, the crowd around them began to chant, “All lives matter”. The group had no intention to disrupt the candidate, the student said.
“Every single online poll, every single event I’ve been No. 1”, he said.
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“They assumed we were going to start some trouble”, Jupiter told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
