Posted on 08/02/2019 12:24:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A “Take it down” chant broke out when fans unveiled a campaign banner supporting President Donald Trump during the eighth inning of Thursday’s game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
Four fans were told to remove the banner before being ejected from the game.
"The banner, which was red, white and blue and featured the words ‘Keep America Great!’ in between ‘Trump 2020’, was unveiled in the eighth inning for less than 10 minutes before Baltimore Police and stadium officials had the fans who hung the banner take it down and leave the stadium. “Camden Yards policy is that no banners can be hung anywhere in the stadium so as not to obstruct other fans’ views of the game, according to a posting on the team’s website. Additionally, the team policy reads that ‘banners are subject to confiscation if the content is commercial, political, and/or in bad taste according to the Orioles’ discretion.’” Video of the ejection was caught by a fan behind the banner:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
The banner appeared following Trump’s recent tweets about Baltimore, where he called the city “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and a “dangerous place."
Former Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon already came to the defense of Trump’s criticism of Baltimore, telling TMZ the city changed during his time playing in the MLB.
“He’s not wrong,” Damon said in the report. “Baltimore was one of the best places to visit when I broke into the league in ’95. And, at the end, we didn’t really, like, enjoy going back."
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Being escorted out of the stadium by police likely saved their lives. What a sh*thole.
RATS LOVE SLUMS!
Actual Trump supporters? Hard to imagine them being at an Orioles game.
Racial tension? What BS.
Is t it a public building?
They violated the 1st amendment
Is this fake news? A previous thread said they were playing Detroit.
We are Legion.
Sad & pathetic times in America when we can’t show our support of our duly elected President
Trump 2020!
It’s a public building, not unlike the public square, and free speech to display a banner at the time and place or one’s choosing should always be permitted in a public building.
Banners are racist. Who knew?
Next time just get a few hundred patriots to bring in rats
TRUMP 2020!!!!
“No free speech! No free speech!”
What the he[[ does race have to do with it???
“A “Take it down” chant broke out when fans unveiled a campaign banner supporting President Donald Trump during the eighth inning of Thursday’s game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards in Baltimore.”
Take it down chant = five people. The rest of the fans approved.
Gotta buy a ticket to get in...free to have their own standards and if they enforce them the same for both sides of the political aisle then there’s nothing wrong with it.
That said, if I was there when they did it, I would have left and never went back...not much of a threat to them as I’d never go in the first place.
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