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Btw, that pepper spray pic you guys seem to be gloating about. Says a lot about anyone that cheers for this kind of crap.
Police: Donald Trump Supporters Grope, Pepper Spray 15-Year-Old Girl At Wisconsin Rally
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/30/3764717/trump-wisconsin-pepper-spray/
Police: Donald Trump Supporters Grope, Pepper Spray 15-Year-Old Girl At Wisconsin Rally
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/30/3764717/trump-wisconsin-pepper-spray/
Police in Janesville, Wisconsin are searching for two men who attended Donald Trump’s raucous town hall Tuesday night in the small post-industrial town: one accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl who was protesting Trump, and another man who pepper sprayed the 15-year-old and a 19-year-old woman. Both women were taken to local hospitals.
According to the police report, a male in the crowd groped the 15-year-old girl. When she pushed him away, another person in the crowd sprayed her.
In a video of the protest, the young woman holds up a sign reading, “Damn, Donald, back at it again with the white supremacy.” An angry crowd of older Trump supporters surrounds her, screaming, “All lives matter.”
In another video, the young woman’s friends are holding her back as she angrily confronts the man she claims groped her. She hits him, and instantly recoils from having her eyes hit with pepper spray at point-blank range. Police told local reporters that the young woman could also face charges for hitting the man.
Over 350 police officers were at the rally Tuesday, and their report said of their efforts to keep the peace: “For the most part, we were successful.” Yet physical clashes may not have happened had Trump’s campaign not issued tickets to five times the number of people that could fit in the Janesville Holiday Inn where his event was held, and had police not decided to put the overflow crowd of supporters in the same fenced-in “free speech zone” that also held hundreds of protesters.
Protesters told ThinkProgress they feared Donald Trump supporters would be incited to physical violence by past comments from their candidate, who has suggested protesters be punched in the face and said he was considering paying the legal fees of a supporter who punched a protester and was later charged with assault. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who supports Trump, has also publicly suggested that protesters should be “hit first and hit hard.”
Janesville Police additionally reported that they had to turn away two people last night who had concealed weapons, and two others who were openly carrying firearms. Another Trump supporter abandoned his vehicle in the middle of the street, causing police concern about explosives, but it turned out “they had left the vehicle in the street to get food.”