Posted on 10/20/2020 9:13:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
Attack at a Trump rally
A recent rally for President Donald Trump ended in an attack and arrests, according to authorities.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Orange County deputies arrested five people, accused of battery and assault upon supporters of President Donald Trump, during a rally at the intersection of Alafaya and University.
John Bohl, 77, is back out rallying for President Trump, despite bumps and bruises which he said happened during last week’s event.
"These are all scrapes. It was out in the parking lot," he said.
According to deputies, 21-year-old Jake Rosenhaus tried grabbing the flag, then allegedly punched Bohl in the head.
"They started jerking it away from me. I jerked it back from them and he got mad and he hit me, punched me in the face."
And a few minutes later, a video recording appears to show someone driving into the lot where Trump supporters were gathered. Bohl appears to touch the vehicle and the person inside appears irate.
"A girl was in a car and she pulled right in the midst of all this from the other side. She spit on me and I held back and then I walked away from her and she leaped out of the car and tackled me from behind," Bohl explained.
Deputies said a total of four adults and one juvenile were arrested on battery and assault charges.
"I got maced in the face that day too. It could have been avoided if they would have let us wave flags for our president and leave us alone," said Jeff Sonksen.
Bohl said he will continue to come out and rally for the president as he did on Tuesday in Casselberry, despite his injuries.
"Its no big deal. I broke a rib, but I went to the hospital and they said it will heal itself, but it’s painful."
Sonksen said it’s sad when people start getting attacked for their political views.
"I refuse to hide in my house. Freedom of speech, I should be able to do this."
Supporters said they stay to one side of the street when rallying and that there's a clear boundary.
Investigators arrested two of the suspects for allegedly trying to run over supporters during the rally. Deputies said they will be back out again, watching over the next rally.
VIDEO AT LINK.......................
Yes, I am documenting ALL the incidents I can before they disappear...........................
OK. I saw another one from primary season (February)... not sure who posted.
It’s just another fine example of the left’s tolerance and civility......................
Tough guy attacking a 77 year old man. Tramp female doing the same. Typical democrats.
When my son was 17, he got a job at the mall for a very upscale clothing place catering to teens and college folks with too much $$$ and had to spend it on something. Frankly he was a chick magnet athlete. Besides competitive swimming, football, basketball, etc, he had a number of years of karate then kick boxing.
A few months into the job, he was leaving the mall and there were 3 gang guys hanging around outside the exit that decided to hassle and push around the preppy white guy. In 30 seconds all three were and the ground and not going anywhere soon. The mall cops were sitting in an office eating donuts and called the police, who showed up real quickly. They initially detained my son for assault but the mall cops ran out of donuts and showed the real cops closed circuit video so they released my son and arrested the 3 gang guys. My son was never interviewed later by the cops much less called to any trial so we figgered that they had a get out of jail free card.
Several key things to how this went down how it did. First, the mall cops had fresh donuts so were too busy to call the cops to run off the gang guys, who they had been observing for awhile. Next, the preppy guy was controlled chaos in nice clothes. He was sparring with police officers starting when he was 10 and had a few black belt degrees. The last thing is that my son was fired from his job because of some image issue. Personally, I think he would have drawn even more girls into the store.
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