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Man tries to pull gun from officer at Trump rally (Las Vegas, Nevada)
WISN-TV ^ | June 19, 2016 | Greg Clary, CNN

Posted on 06/19/2016 3:15:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Police arrested a 19-year-old man Saturday inside a Las Vegas theater where presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was holding a campaign rally after the man attempted to pull a police officer's gun from its holster during the event.

Police said Michael Sandford struck up a conversation with a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer under the pretenses that he was seeking to get an autograph. During the conversation, police said Sandford tried to pull the officer's service weapon from its holster. Other officers also assigned to provide security at the event were quickly able to detain Sandford and authorities said there was no further disruption to the event.

Trump is under U.S. Secret Service protection but local law enforcement often supplements them at campaign events....

(Excerpt) Read more at wisn.com ...


TOPICS: Nevada; Campaign News; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; lasvegas; michaelsandford; nevada; newyork; trump; violence
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To: cloudmountain

First things first. Nut him.


21 posted on 06/19/2016 4:24:00 PM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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To: Rannug
First things first. Nut him.

That would do it, for sure.

22 posted on 06/19/2016 4:25:56 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: TLI; 2ndDivisionVet

Here is the guy with the gun. Video at site

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-gun-donald-trump-rally-houston-custody-article-1.2678163


23 posted on 06/19/2016 4:26:35 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The should have hired some Baltimore cops to give him a ride to jail.


24 posted on 06/19/2016 5:01:55 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He probably found out that guns don’t slide out of a policemans holster as easy as they do out of Cowboy Gunfighters holsters on TV.


25 posted on 06/19/2016 5:05:12 PM PDT by jim_trent
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wish the officers would have shot and killed him.

That move is just begging for death by cop.


26 posted on 06/19/2016 5:26:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Police are practiced in weapons retention, and have specialized holsters to make it more difficult to take a gun from them.


27 posted on 06/19/2016 5:39:45 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: gaijin

Is that the perp?


28 posted on 06/19/2016 6:53:03 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: TLI

Love the hold the burly cop has on the puny little punk.


29 posted on 06/19/2016 6:54:09 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: jim_trent

:)


30 posted on 06/19/2016 6:54:41 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: hoosiermama

People are conflating TWO DIFFERENT incidents:

1. Houston - Huge black guy turns out to HAVE a gun

2. Las Vegas - Scrawny idiotic honky tried to GRAB police gun


31 posted on 06/19/2016 6:59:06 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Bigg Red

post right above.


32 posted on 06/19/2016 6:59:33 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

I realized that once I saw both pictures


33 posted on 06/19/2016 7:04:12 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
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To: hoosiermama
Yep, that's the Houston nut.

The pics today are of the Las Vegas nut.

Nutcases are everywhere I guess...

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34 posted on 06/19/2016 8:44:00 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trying to be the first martyr for the #nevertrump crowd?


35 posted on 06/20/2016 2:58:56 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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