Violence by protesters at a Donald Trump rally in San Jose on Thursday night has sparked criticism of the demonstrators and the reaction to them.
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Earlier in the week, Llamas was rather abruptly insulted during a Trump press conference.
“Oh, look at my African-American over here”, an excited Trump said, while pointing into the crowd.
Trump replied: “Well, as a member of a society where very pro-Mexico and that’s fine”.
Cheadle said that Trump spoke to him and paraphrased the GOP candidate: “You know what I was talking about?” He said they’re taken out of context, essentially, and immigrants who are criminals should indeed be deported. One news outlet, KTVU, said that Trump supporters were taunting the protestors, not realizing that much of the destruction and assaults were caught on camera, showing a much different account of events.
He abandoned a rally in Chicago in March after clashes between his supporters and protesters.
If you ask Trump’s political opponents who was to blame for the riots that followed his rally in San Jose Thursday, the answer is clear.
“We’ve been hearing his nonsense”, said Rachel Ochoa, a 57-year-old Redding resident who teaches English as a second language.
Calling the crowd inside the San Jose Convention Center “amazing”, he said they were “accosted by a bunch of thugs burning the American flag” upon leaving. Hicks said Trump was “grateful for this person’s support”.
If you believe the Trump campaign is itself a baby Hitler, is it not at least a little bit justified to punch one of his supporters in the nose? His supporters have been far from gentle and peaceful, for example, the time one Trump supporter called for a black man to be “burned alive”, or the time Trump supporters-whom Trump called “passionate”-attacked a Latino homeless man and urinated on him. This is not because of someone in the Democratic Party”, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Friday”. Some Trump supporters were punched.
Brown struck up a conversation with De La Torre at the event, and De La Torre noted how he, as a Latino, also mingled with people of different ethnicities at other Trump events.
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Only four people were arrested at the rally on Thursday. “It can be dormant, but if there are outside influences that stoke these strong feelings, I think that is really in line with a lot of activism that has happened in this city over the decades”.
