Posted on 11/22/2015 5:08:34 AM PST by kristinn
A white man punched and attempted to choke a black protester who was thrown on the ground at a Donald Trump rally in Birmingham on Saturday morning, as an onlooker yelled, "Don't choke him! Don't choke him!"
The protester, identified by local media as well-known activist Mercutio Southall Jr., started shouting during Trump's speech and could be heard yelling, "Black lives matter!" A fight broke out around him, prompting Trump to briefly halt the rally and demand removal of Southall.
"Get him the hell out of here, will you please?" Trump said.
The crowd alternated between cheering and booing as security officers pushed their way through the crowd of several thousand. Southall fell to the ground and was surrounded by several white men who appeared to be kicking and punching him, according to video captured by CNN. A Washington Post reporter in the crowd watched as one of the men put his hands on Southall's neck, and heard a female onlooker repeatedly shout: "Don't choke him!"
Southall has had many run-ins with the police and has even been arrested as he fights against what he says is unfair treatment of blacks.
Several bystanders were alarmed that Southall would be severely hurt, and the security officers quickly moved to get him off the ground and walk him out of the building. Meanwhile, Trump recounted how Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently responded to Black Lives Matter activists who came onto the stage of one of his events.
"You see, he was politically correct," Trump said. "Two young women came up to the podium. They took over his microphone. I promise you, that's not going to happen with me. I promise you. Never going to happen. Not going to happen. Can't let that stuff happen."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The headline should have read “BLM protester finds out what an Alabama Azz Kicking is†:-)
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LOL! Way to go, Georgia Girl.
There is such a thing as a civil RICO suit. I think it should be seriously considered. For may situations.
“Don’t start Nuffin, won’t be Nuffin.”<——what she said..
‘bout time.
Uppity whitey alert!!!!
“The racially charged altercation occurred in Birmingham, famous in the 1960s as a center of the civil rights struggle, and led some to note that Trump’s supporters at the rally were nearly all white — in a city with a black majority.”
Oh really?
Who made it racially charged?
The fact he was able to give an interview NOT from a hospital bed shows he was not mishandled.
I can see it now, like an old cartoon character from the 1930s...
“They hit me and kicked me and knocked me down and scratched up my clothes then they kicked me and hurt me and then...they kicked me!”
I'm betting it's a George Soros front group... but we all know the Washington post won't look into that...
“Trump doesn’t give a rat’s patooty about any of it and the media can try as they will - water off a duck’s back.”
Thank goodness Trump does not have a linguine spine, as the MSM/Dems/Rinos/GOPe only have a couple of months left to try to sway and/or scare the potential Pub Primary voters out there to vote for “anybody but Trump”.
They are all very desperate now, and must act fast. They will try anything, especially distorted polls, media panels on TV, debate moderators, print media, and on the Internet. This includes lots of false reporting and major lying like in this article above. Be prepared to try to refute this onslaught by any means you can to help out Trump.
The evil forces out there are coalescing to do Trump in, and they will throw everything but the kitchen sink at him. This is a battle for the ideological soul of America, and we must not falter. Our enemies KNOW Trump will beat Hillary in a landslide.
Might have been strategized to refer to the "I can't breathe" issue where police were accused of suffocating a seller of illegal cigarettes in NYC.
I am in that boat, at 80 years!
Even apes respect(don’t piss-off) Silverbacks!
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