Posted on 11/23/2015 9:02:03 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Video evidence puts several large holes in the claim that Donald Trump's supporters punched and kicked an attention-seeking protester who tried and failed to disrupt Trump's Birmingham, Ala., rally on Saturday night.
"A black protester at Trump's rally today in Alabama was shoved, tackled, punched & kicked," CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond tweeted Saturday night.
*snip*
The video begins with Black Lives Matter protester Mercutio Southall on the floor, struggling to get up. The Gateway Pundit reported that it appeared that Southall repeatedly fell to the floor to frustrate the efforts of security personnel to remove him.
The video shows that as some members of Trump's security team arrive and try to help the large black man rise, he struggles against them. As he starts to get up, Southall throws a wild punch that connects only with the air. The only people touching Southall as they struggle to get him upright are security people. One man, who never touches Southall, assumes a boxing stance, but is waved off by a member of the security team.
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This... is CNN
Who do you believe CNN or your lying eyes?
He's a young Social Justice Warrior who is earning his chops with propganda production like this. Here's his bio at CNN:
Before joining CNN, Diamond earned his journalism chops as a reporter and news editor at the GW Hatchet, the independent student newspaper of the George Washington University where he broke a national news story after uncovering that university officials misrepresented the school's financial aid policy. For that story, he won the Institute on Political Journalism's Collegiate Journalism Award and a Pinnacle Award from the College Media Association.What do you expect?He graduated Cum Laude from The George Washington University with a degree in international affairs. He also spent a semester at Tel Aviv University and is fluent in French and conversational in Hebrew and Spanish.
Wait. That was a low blow. I apologize to RT.
When rule of law collapses, I know what I want to hunt ...
I watched the raw video when it first came out...
It does seem a few men before security came tried to kick him...when he was down on the ground...
As far as I can tell, if he was actually kicked, it was minor and not viciously done...
as far as I’m concerned... he should have the crap kicked out of him...
Institute on Political Journalism? Is there any other kind in America today? Didn't they merge with the Institute of Biased Journalism?
RT, at least, is pro-Russian.
Lol. Perfect!
Jeremy Diamond is just one liar out of thousands of liars in the media coast to coast.
Later
If the left only told the truth, they would have been thrown out of the country ages ago. Their message is a lie.
They lie and lie, and try to shape the narrative. It’s what they do.
“GW Hatchet” Job. Sounds racis’
And is vindictive.
And the same MSM are moderating and controlling the debates?
What a farce on the American people.
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