Earlier in the day, some black students at another Trump campaign rally, on the campus of Radford University in Virginia, were led out by Secret Service after they began chanting: “No more hate!”
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A Time magazine photographer trying to document the exit of dozens of black protesters from the rally in southwestern Radford, Virginia, was grabbed by the neck and shoved to the ground by a Secret Service agent.
Mike Sanders, a student at Georgia’s Valdosta State University, said police officers told them the Secret Service had said “Trump doesn’t want us there”. The agent has not been identified.
Morris reported he did this only to show what the agent had done to him, but the photographer was subsequently arrested and detained anyway.
The agent then grabs the photographer’s throat and throws him to the ground in a chokehold.
Seconds later, Morris touched the agent to demonstrate his version of what happened. USA Today spoke with a couple of the protesters, who claimed they were not there to disrupt Trump’s speech.
The school, Valdosta State University, was segregated for whites-only until 1963, and the incident only adds fuel to the fire of allegations of racism from the Trump campaign. “I guess. they’re afraid we’re going to say something or do something”. When he stepped out of the area, a Secret Service agent tried to get Morris to return to the press pen. “But in this case, I support them”, Childress said.
“I think he’s ignorant”, said Clinesha Sims, an 18-year-old biology major who wasn’t among the students escorted out by security.
“So let me tell you, I’m sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad ear piece that they gave me and you could hardly hear what he was saying”, Trump said.
Just this past Sunday (Feb. 28) he came under fire for his unwillingness to condemn a white supremacist Ku Klux Klan leader.
Trump said that he had been hampered by a faulty earpiece during the CNN interview.
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“They assumed we were going to start some trouble”, Jupiter told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
