Posted on 11/21/2015 3:34:48 PM PST by RoosterRedux
During a campaign rally for Republican presidential contender Donald Trump in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday, a fight broke out between a Black Lives Matter protester and other event attendees.
One video from the event, shot by a CNN reporter, shows several Trump supporters shoving and kicking a black protester on the ground. CNN reports that the man appeared to have been shouting "black lives matter," a slogan that was also printed on his shirt. The network reported that at least six attendees pushed and tackled the man when he refused to leave the event.
One rally attendee can be heard on camera chanting "all lives matter" as the protester was later escorted out by police officers.
The scuffle drew enough attention that Trump interrupted his speech at the rally to address the fight.
"Yeah, you can get him out," Trump said on stage, referring to a protester. "Yeah, get him out. Get him the hell out of here."
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As I previously posted: I know that if a Trump supporter yelled “All lives matter†in a BLM event, they’d probably kill them. Does that mean we should kill someone who shouts BLM at our event? As far as Trump supporters taking him down, fine, no argument from me.
However, after viewing the scuffle, this whole argument is moot. Apparently security tried to get him out and he was combative. He took a swing at them. If anyone kicked him when he was down, it doesnt show. 'Media lying as usual.. They're fabricating another racial incident. Apparently this account is from witnesses, same ones who said "hands up" for Michael Brown.
But once more let me be clear. No matter what the deal is, my only objection was if crowd kicked him while he was down. I wholeheartedly approve of taking him down. This incident so far is pure crap from the left.
To whom? The MSM coverage of the incident gets Trump more voters. All his fans look all the bad there is to the MSM and liberals/reds of any sort.
A hero in an ever narrowing world.
Would it be ok if I mounted him,and pummeled his face with my fists?
never mind when they did the same at a Bernie Sanders event, the event was cancelled...when they did the same at a hillary event, she stood there and negotiated with them for a half hour...do it at a Trump even?? GTFO!!!
There are several almost invisible painful ways to escort a trouble maker out of a venue.
Oh, alright.
Keep in mind that his blood is likely a hazmat.
King Obie wants a race war and dollars to donuts says someone in the HW was behind today's disruption. Responses like this play into his plan.
Restraint, restraint, restraint.
Trump needs to study up on RICO laws and promise to prosecute any and everyone involved in these orchestrated acts of disruption.
You are probably on to something there.
Well said.
I disagree when you say there is not much left of America. There is a lot left of America like 90%.
We are just being ruled by a very small minority maybe less than 200,000. With the media they make it appear like there are just a few of us but in reality we are the majority and winning.
This story about BLM is so biased and that is my point. The BLM knuckle draggers are always the ones starting the trouble not the Trump crowd yet CBS spins it as if the BLM people are the angels.
BLM people are cowards, pot heads, druggies, losers, welfare leaches etc. meaning that when confronted they fall apart. You may have seen about a week ago a BLM mob taking over a library screaming and harassing the sheep students. The BLM mob were thugs. Had the crowd stood up to them they would have totally fallen apart. Student these days are pea brains, intellectual midgets, gutless wonders so they let BLM walk all over them but they are really paper tigers.
In contrast the Trump crowd showed them who is boss and they were thrown out. BLM does not expect to be treated this way. They want easy pickings. If they are confronted they run.
We are the majority and we are a huge majority and we can elect Trump with 65% of the vote at minimum. BLM is only a handful of idiots amplified by the media. Remember the Occupy Wall Street movement? Remember how big it was made out to be? Where are they now?
BLM is nothing more than Occupy Wall Street 2.0.
I just watched the video. They were easy on the guy. He refused to leave and kept up his rants. Mostly, you see them trying to get him to leave, but he keeps moving back into the crowd chanting his slogans.
I wonder if the guys that were trying to get him to leave were the Secret Service. If not, where were they?
This is just another plant by the elites. Just like the guy who had served time for planning to bomb a marine facility who showed up to protest Trump.
This reminds me of how they tried to claim the Tea Party rallies were racist. The Park Service said the Tea Party rally was one of the cleanest events they ever had in the park. No trash was left behind after the rally. This was in sharp contrast to the Obama swearing in ceremony. Trash was left all over.
I don’t see anyone kicking him. He ends up on the ground but it isn’t clear how that happened, as he was part of the action and may have been resisting people trying to move him out. Security people are trying to move him out. One guy assumed a “put up your dukes” position but clearly didn’t hit him.
This is typical, that someone says people are kicking or hitting someone while they are down and the media runs with that, and does anyone really watch what happened?
That said, anyone trying to pull this crap in a crowd of thousands is asking for trouble and attempting to create a situation and be a martyr.
BLACK MATTER LIVES!!
I didn’t see anyone kicking him either. He kept being a jerk, so he was obviously not hurt. Like you said, we can’t see how he landed on the ground. Probably did it himself to make it harder to throw him out. He managed to get on his feet and keep disrupting for some time after. They had a hard time getting him out because they weren’t hurting him. The media wants anyone but Trump.
I agree Kenny. I just had a Twitter exchange about this. There are people surrounding him, trying to merely escort him out.
As they are working to get him up and out, a woman in blue plaid runs up and kicks him. They hold their hands out to stop her, because they are decent people. I know we all have base instincts, but we need to control ourselves.
But remember - Trump supporters here are something else. I don't know what, exactly. I used to think Freepers loved liberty, the Constitution, virtuous civic behavior, but now they're descending into merely Trump worshippers.
You can't be a constitutional conservative -- if you like Cruz or anyone else, you're "GOPe." When does Trump ever talk about loving the Constitution? When in the past has he EVER meaningfully supported us on some major issue? Was he out front trying to prevent Obamacare from passing? Did he fight against the bank bailouts? Did he stand up to Obama like Cruz did?
I think honestly that they might be working from the same cyber troll house.
Trump is a boor and he practically incited a riot - can you imagine ANY other candidate screaming "Get him the hell out of here?" NO class. Yes, we fight in the arena of ideas. But this is NOT who we are.
I didn’t either, at first.
Lady runs up and kicks him at about 22 seconds. Others hold her off.
It’s better to acknowledge it, condemn it, and point out that majority were doing their best to calm the situation down.
There have *always* been protestors at rallies. People have to learn to deal with it without being fodder for CNN bias.
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