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Photographer, Secret Service agent in altercation at Trump’s rally
cnn.com ^ | Updated 3:37 PM ET, Mon February 29, 2016 | Jim Acosta, Kristen Holmes and Julia Manchester, CNN

Posted on 02/29/2016 12:41:03 PM PST by Trumpinator

Time magazine photographer Chris Morris told CNN that as he tried to exit the media pen, a Secret Service agent began choking him.

"I'm not pressing charges," Morris said Monday. "I stepped 18 inches out of the pen and he grabbed me by the neck and started choking me and then he slammed me to the ground."

The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

Before the incident, dozens of protesters interrupted Trump's rally, many of them linking arms and bringing the Republican presidential front-runner's stump speech temporarily to a halt.

The protest started after one activist interrupted Trump, to which he responded by asking the protester "Are you from Mexico?"

Some of the demonstrators chanted "Black Lives Matter," to which Trump responded with "All lives matter."

After initially resisting, the activists were escorted o

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016election; afroturf; astroturf; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; chrismorris; cnn; election2016; jimacosta; juliamanchester; kristenholmes; newyork; redistribution; reparations; secretservice; timemagazine; trump; whiteprivilege
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To: Parley Baer

That was afterwards. He was bumping the agent just before he was choke slammed.


21 posted on 02/29/2016 1:55:53 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Trumpinator

They are throwing everything at Trump the last couple of days. I’ve never seen anything like this.


22 posted on 02/29/2016 1:58:27 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Trumpinator

No worries. Thanks for understanding.


23 posted on 02/29/2016 2:01:32 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Trumpinator

If you want to get past secret service in Obamanation you just need to send a hooker their way.


24 posted on 02/29/2016 2:17:20 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: AppyPappy

More than bumping the agent———http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-29/caught-tape-time-photographer-choke-slammed-trump-rally-secret-service


25 posted on 02/29/2016 2:52:54 PM PST by yadent
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To: frankenMonkey

Yes, and that’s after the SS guy told him to “get in the pen” calmly but firmly. The Time reporter was wanting special treatment by not following the rules that everyone else was following.


26 posted on 02/29/2016 2:54:34 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Hulka

All I saw in the videos was a leftist a-hole kicking the Secret Service agent. Where is this supposed chokehold???


27 posted on 02/29/2016 3:10:52 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Did Trump come back and apologize for saying "All lives matter" afterward? NO.. GOOD.

Exactly! I remember commenting waaaaaaaay back that Trump will do well as long as he doesn't apologize for telling the truth.

28 posted on 02/29/2016 3:16:37 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: kaehurowing

Wellll. . .he SAID it happened and he is the MSM and they never lie.


29 posted on 02/29/2016 3:17:50 PM PST by Hulka
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To: Hulka

Turns out the photographer wasn’t lying at all.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/02/29/federal-secret-service-agent-attacks-time-magazine-photographer-during-trump-rally/

The Secret Service guy should be up on charges. He nearly killed this man twice.

First when he almost broke the man’s neck and second when the man was on the ground and you can see the SS agent going for his gun. He came pretty close to killing the photographer.


30 posted on 02/29/2016 3:26:49 PM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: MeganC

The video is pretty poor to be making such definitive statements about what happened. It looks to me like the photographer pushed the agent in an attempt to get out when police and secret service were removing protesters from the arena. Since I could not tell what the photographer was told and how exactly he put his hands on the agent, i can’t say that the officer was not justified in defending himself. Did he possibly overreact with more force than necessary? Quite likely but the photographer does not appear to be completely innocent in this as he is portraying himself. He could face charges of assaulting a federal officer and if that happens I am guessing he will lose his credentials.


31 posted on 02/29/2016 4:32:08 PM PST by gunnut
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To: Trumpinator
McClellan was gentile...

Really? And all this time I thought he was Jewish.

32 posted on 02/29/2016 5:47:09 PM PST by PJ-Comix (DUmmie Skinner: Bought & Paid For By Hillary)
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To: Trumpinator

McClellan called Lincoln an ape more than once....


33 posted on 02/29/2016 5:48:12 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: gunnut

He did a chest-bump against the Agent. That is not a smart thing to do. Dumb, actually.

He chest-bumped the Agent who stood in his way and the Agent responded. You do NOT let people bully their way by physically pushing you, especially when you are Secret Service and are protecting a high-value asset.

The photog might look like a panty-waist girly-boy, but one never knows what that puffter might do, and when the Agent pushed back THAT is when the sissy grabbed the Agent. . .and that required action and the sniffler ended up on his back and kicking like a girl.


34 posted on 03/01/2016 5:52:10 AM PST by Hulka
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To: frankenMonkey
Absolutely right. Video shows this a$$hat chest-bumps the SS, then tells him to “f*ck off”

Which video is that?

35 posted on 03/01/2016 8:02:46 AM PST by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: MeganC

IF you watch the other video, it looks like the agent told the photographer to get back behind the line with a touch to his shoulder. Photographer turned around and chest bumped officer and yelled FU to him. Expect to be taken down to the ground when you do that.


36 posted on 03/01/2016 8:08:46 AM PST by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: Trumpinator

WHo hired those secret service agents? Trump or are they just federal agents appointed by ...Obama admin?


37 posted on 03/01/2016 8:10:15 AM PST by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: Fawn
link to video
38 posted on 03/01/2016 8:21:25 AM PST by frankenMonkey
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To: Fawn

Yelling “FU” at a member of law enforcement is a protected right in this country. If they can’t take it then they need to find another line of work.


39 posted on 03/01/2016 9:11:40 AM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: frankenMonkey

Thank you!


40 posted on 03/01/2016 9:31:11 AM PST by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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