A group of about 30 Valdosta students attended a rally for Donald Trump and stood silently on the bleachers before they were removed by the Secret Service. Other videos show Morris, a camera around his neck, on his back kicking as the agent tries to subdue him.
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The Trump rally was considered a private event on the campus, officials said.
In addition to the many documented cases of violence, he has yet to disavow former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke and has association with other white supremacist organizations.
At another Trump campaign event Monday, a photographer was slammed into a table by a security officer.
“We didn’t plan to do anything”, said Tahjila Davis, a 19-year-old student who was forced to leave the rally.
As demonstrators disrupted a Trump rally in Virginia on Monday, photographer Christopher Morris moved out of a pen assigned for the media to take a photo – but was swiftly blocked by an agent.
However, the students followed orders from the Secret Service without loud demonstration.
Davis did not respond to questions about how she knew it was agents from U.S. Secret Service who were involved in her and her friends’ ejections from the arena. Morris claimed the agent grabbed him by the neck as he tried to get a better shot of the protesters by stepping outside of the designated “press pen”.
“I could hardly hear what he’s saying”.
Trump’s campaign says it is not aware of all the details surrounding the incident.
“Our local field office is working with their law enforcement partners to determine the exact circumstances that led up to this incident”, spokesman Robert Hoback told the news network.
Another student, Brooke Gladney, told the Register reporter; ‘SecretService told us we had to get out…Only reason we were given is that Mr Trump did not want us there’.
The outspoken candidate is set to beat rival Ted Cruz on Super Tuesday to set up commanding position in the race for the Republic Presidential nomination.
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Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress told the newspaper Tuesday that “Trump detail” had escorted the students out.
