Wrong.
Trump was into 3/4 of his speech and I was about 7 rows back to the right when facing Trump, when a slender man in an orange shirt started screaming, and pushing people aside and basically running through them.He ran into me screaming ‘He’s got a gun!’ and kept going towards the back. He was in his twenties, white, short brown hair, triangular face and big eyes. Thinking back he must have been some cowardly weasel. I hope the police detained him for questioning.
Since he shoved all the people aside and created a path I had a clear view of the protester from the back. Tall guy, his head higher than everyone else’s. He was holding a black shiny sign, about half the size of our signs. He was holding the sign with both hands held high and did not seem threatening to me, he was walking slowly towards the podium amongst people. I didn’t see a gun.
The guy behind me, a shorter guy in a red or dark pink shirt, black hair with a voice like a megaphone asked me, what did that guy say? I said: “he said he has a gun, but I dont see one”. So he took off to try to subdue him, and also the guy in front of me. Things happened fast, when I got closer there were about five guys in the fray.
So it all started because the guy in the orange shirt panicked, started shoving people aside and running to the back of the venue while screaming about a gun. The main protester did not get beaten and subdued until after that happened.
After the altercation I asked one of the guys that tackled him if the protestor had a gun for real, and he told me he didn’t see one on him.
I don’t know. Either the guy was a delusional cowardly weasel, or he was working in concert with the main protester to incite violence and a riot.
I don’t think there is any way anyone could have brought a gun to the venue, we had to go through metal detectors, all bags were searched and some people where scanned with wands.
It’s sad, there were two families in front of me with small children, maybe seven to ten, boys and girls wearing cute minion deplorable shirts, after all this happened the moms were trying to confort the kids who got scared and upset. Too bad the protester (or protesters) had to ruin it for everyone.
After reading your post, I watched the vid again, but at least on the Right Side feed, the camera just then zooms in on Trump, so Mr. Orange Shirt cannot be seen. But there are so many people there recording or taking pics with phones, maybe somebody caught an image of him...
Question: How does Crites (tall protester) get in with an anti-Trump sign? In the last rally I went to involving a major figure (Dubya flew in to support the Pub candidate for Governor) there’s no way anyone got in with such a sign.
Can anyone here get this info to 4chan.org?
Good report - yeah, that other guy might just have been involved.
Can you see him in either of these videos posted by TigersEye?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemJPPb8Otw