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Trump Fan Who Punched Protester: ‘Next Time, We Might Have to Kill Him’
Daily Beast ^ | 3/10/2016

Posted on 03/10/2016 3:15:37 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1

The Donald Trump supporter who was caught on tape sucker-punching a black protester during a Wednesday night rally said "Next time, we might have to kill him." Inside Edition tracked down John McGraw, 78, who was later charged with assault and battery for the incident, and he was boastful of his violent act: "You bet I liked it. Knocking the hell out of that big mouth," he said of punching 26-year-old Rakeem Jones. Asked why he chose to throw a punch, McGraw, said, "We don’t know if he’s ISIS. We don’t know who he is, but we know he’s not acting like an American, cussing me. If he wants it laid out, I laid it out." And on whether Jones deserved to be hit, McGraw declared, "Yes, he deserved it. The next time we see him, we might have to kill him. We don’t know who he is. He might be with a terrorist."

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To: Fast Ed97

And this peice of filth just gave them a loaded gun.


61 posted on 03/10/2016 6:59:53 PM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: Lorianne
"Fortunately for us all, you aren’t in charge of the laws and we still have the rule of law."

If we still had the 'rule of law' .... Obama wouldn't be in the whitehouse and Jindal, Rubio and Cruz would not have been allowed to run for president.

62 posted on 03/10/2016 7:02:41 PM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Brilliant! Well no, not really, takes a lot of courage to sucker punch someone, he sounds like a class act, the C&L are superfluous. I bet there are gonna be a whole bunch of freepers that have a completely different opinion of this guy than the Blacks that play the Knockout game.


63 posted on 03/10/2016 7:08:36 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Mr McGraw, you have a perfect right to defend yourself, but your defense attorney will thank you if you don’t make remarks like that to the press first.

He wasn't defending himself. The idiot protester was being marched out of the building. The idiot Trump supporter (not an indictment of Trump - that's just what the guy was) sucker-punched him (or sucker-elbowed him, to be more accurate.) The protester was no threat - security was leading him out, and he was leaving.

According to this link, McGraw was later charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct. That seems appropriate to me.

64 posted on 03/10/2016 8:18:27 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Gil4

I should have been more clear - I meant in the case that the man McGraw assaulted came looking for revenge. I concur with your description of the initial incident.


65 posted on 03/10/2016 11:46:12 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: dead
The ______ tried to start a 6,000 against 4 fight, and people here want to give him a medal for bravery

Incredible isn't it?

To me the whole nation is getting sucker-punched.

67 posted on 03/11/2016 2:58:51 AM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: Godebert

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. Whining that crimes are being commited elsewhere makes you look rather stupid.


68 posted on 03/11/2016 3:04:04 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: tumblindice

DITTOS!!


69 posted on 03/11/2016 3:04:52 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Godebert

Too many freepers are getting an episode of the vapors. A 78 year old guy cannot damage a young black guy much or at all. A tempest in a teapot. Much ado about nothing.


70 posted on 03/11/2016 3:15:25 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dead

Wasn’t it a private event? I thought you had to get tickets to attend these Trump rallies.


71 posted on 03/11/2016 3:25:20 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: dead
Now, we have idiots here cheering it on.

It's not been a good evolution around here. It's been a destructive rot.

Yup, the flip side of the " Trump Effect "

I haven't looked yet, but I can only imagine the name calling, and nastiness tossed your way for your comment...

Some Trumpets are turning into little fascists...

72 posted on 03/11/2016 3:44:58 AM PST by Popman
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73 posted on 03/11/2016 6:06:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Either we have the rule of law or we don’t. If you want to get your panties in a bunch of a 78 year old man punching some criminal thug.... knock yourself out.


74 posted on 03/11/2016 6:33:45 AM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I see a new candidate for the Head of the Secret Service in Trump’s administration.


75 posted on 03/11/2016 6:37:08 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Make this 78-year-old gentleman the head of Trump security and give him a full-auto weapon.


76 posted on 03/11/2016 6:38:21 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: Popman; dead

America needs a Pinochet, replete with motorbike-riding Death Squads.


77 posted on 03/11/2016 6:39:41 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: dead
Conservatives don’t believe in assaulting people because they say things you don’t like.

Assaulting people as a debate tactic is completely underrated.

78 posted on 03/11/2016 6:41:49 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: Lorianne
Fortunately for us all, you aren’t in charge of the laws and we still have the rule of law.

How can anyone defend the old man's latest comments? Shoot a citizen because he "might be a terrorist"? Strikes me as a comment from a typical "low information" voter.

79 posted on 03/11/2016 6:42:11 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Some of the responses on this thread make me ashamed to be part of this site.


80 posted on 03/11/2016 6:52:37 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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