A video from outside of Trump’s rally shows at least five police officers using pepper spray against protesters.
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Protesters outside Donald Trump’s rally in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday were pepper sprayed by police, an uncommon practice even at the most tense events for the Republican presidential frontrunner.
Mr Trump’s remarks were interrupted about a dozen times by protesters who managed to get into the theatre and they were escorted out.
At a rally earlier Saturday outside Dayton, Ohio, Trump was briefly surrounded by Secret Service agents when a man tried to breach the security buffer.
Just one day following a mass protest that resulted in Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago being canceled, the attention is now turned on a rally in Kansas City where police sprayed pepper spray into the crowd of protestors last night (March 12).
Bradford is facing two misdemeanor charges for resisting arrest and obstructing an officer.
“What caused the protests at Trump’s rally”, Sanders continued, “is a candidate that has promoted hatred and division against Latinos, Muslims, women, and people with disabilities, and his birther attacks against the legitimacy of President Obama”.
Mr Obama, who will be standing down next January following November’s presidential election, was speaking at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Dallas on Saturday.
Critics of the police, as well as Trump supporters, were vocal on social media. However Trump has said that he does not condone violence.
This as NBC News projected Marco Rubio as the victor in the Washington, D.C., caucus Saturday. Mr Trump came a distant third in both contests.
Rubio got 37 percent, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 36 percent.
For Democrats, Hillary Clinton won the caucus on the Northern Mariana Islands, a USA territory in the Pacific Ocean. Up to now, only one of them had endorsed Clinton while the others were uncommitted.
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Clinton now has 766 delegates to Bernie Sanders’ 551, based on primaries and caucuses alone. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination.
