“There was an incident involving a photographer and a USSS agent at today’s Radford University Trump rally”, Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Hill.
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The GOP candidate was being heckled by dozens of black students in Radford, Va., when security began to escort them out – and a photographer with Time magazine followed along to shoot it, according to the Washington Examiner.
The video is CUH-RAZY, y’all! He also briefly put his hand on the agent’s neck to demonstrate the choke hold the agent had placed on him.
Morris was trying to move closer to the protesters when the agent stood in front of him, blocking his shot, prompting Morris to tell him “fuck you”.
A photographer, reportedly Christopher Morris of Time Magazine, was allegedly choke slammed, detained, and arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Virginia on February 29.
Trump’s rally in Radford, Virginia was repeatedly interrupted by groups of Black Lives Matter protesters and pro-immigration activists.
The Trump campaign said in a statement that it was not aware of all the details regarding the incident between the Time photographer and Secret Service agent, and directed enquiries to law enforcement.
“I don’t think America ever stopped being great”, she told supporters in MA, adding a twist to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
A short video of the encounter was posted on Twitter by Independent Journal reporter Joe Perticone and other repoters.
For Rubio, who launched his longshot campaign almost a year ago from Miami, a loss in Florida primary threatens to derail his ambitions of balking front-runner Donald Trump, who thus far dominates in early preference polls.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s spokesman Ari Adler said: “We are not answering a hypothetical question about an election in November for which we don’t even know who all the candidates will be”.
Late Sunday, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse became the first sitting Republican senator to say explicitly that he would not back Trump if he does win the nomination.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who ended his own bid for the nomination last fall, said he signed a pledge that he wouldn’t support anyone other than the GOP nominee “and I’m a person of my word”.
On Monday, the protesters disrupted Trump’s remarks several times for long stretches, prompting him to shout to security guards several times, “Get them out please, get them out”.
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“Are you from Mexico?” he asked one who protested his talk of building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
