Posted on 03/10/2016 3:07:46 PM PST by mandaladon
To Rakeem Jones, flanked on all sides by uniformed sheriff's deputies, it was more than just the shock of being ejected from a political rally for Donald Trump. The black man felt as if he was being transported back in time.
"It's not the America they portray on TV," the 26-year-old said, the day after he was wrestled to the ground by officers and punched in the face during the campaign event in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
But to friend Ronnie Rouse, who caught the incident on video, it was "totally American."
"This is the America everybody wants to ignore," the music producer told The Associated Press Thursday. "This is the America, when people tell you, 'Oh, racism doesn't exist.' It's here."
What should we make of scenes like this Wednesday evening at Crown Coliseum?
They have become a regular thing at Trump rallies, and while security experts say Trump has every right to quash dissent at events he's paying for, they say the Republican front-runner is playing with fire by not tamping down uncivil behavior and assault.
"I would go so far as to say that I find that abhorrent," security consultant Stan Kephart, a former police chief in Arizona and California, says of Trump's failure to call out his pugnacious followers. "To me, he's pressing the line. He's doing things that you would see a showman do."
What's Trump's attitude about all of this?
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Standard communist agitprop.
Show up at a Trump rally uninvited
Stir shit up
Get the crap beat out of you
Simple
Daddy’s whereabouts are unknown
Why would someone go to a rally of the opposing side unless you are there for trouble. Don’t give me some garbage about it being your right to free speech and all that crap......they went there to cause trouble. Liberal thinking is a disease.
“Papa was a rolling stone”...
Another miss piece.
Yep.
Drama much, Yahoo News?
Rakeem - next time you are in prison, be sure to tell them about the time you got whupped by a 78 year old man. Should get you a lot of re-spect in the cell block.
They are also paid.
The only question is how much did soros/blm types pay him to cause issue.
funny, reuters wasn’t there when the gun, knife and bat were pulled on me in the cab by Obama’s sons.
or when the mom of a 4 year old stole money out of my wallet that I stupidly left on the front seat while I put HER groceries in the trunk.
then when I couldn’t find it and said i’m calling the cops she found it in the back floor!!! a miracle. but it was empty
last time I did that.
reuters misses all those things
Last I saw there was no right to incite at a private event. If a White person went to a BLM event and started saying incitement stuff would they be defending the inciter as free speech? I seriously doubt it.
the Constitution protects your right to free speech
the Constitution protects the free speech of candiate’s
the Constitution protects the rights of those who wish to hear a candidate
when a candidate rents a hall, his guests are allowed in
if a person wishes to protest, they can do it outside the entrance all they want
they do not have a right to silence a candidate and prevent those who wish to hear him from hearing him
an attendee at a Trump even is having their Constitutional rights violated by anyone who acts out
someone starts dismantling my rights, will have their own dismantled
I love how these people can be rude, loud, disruptive and still be called “victims”.
Isn’t Obamaland great?
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