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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 03:39 PM Mar 2016

Secret Service investigating confrontation between reporter and agent at Trump rally

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/secret-service-investigating-confrontation-between-reporter-and-agent-at-trump-rally/

The Secret Service is investigating a confrontation between a Time magazine photographer and a Secret Service agent at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Virginia, the White House said on Tuesday.

“The Secret Service is working with local law enforcement to try to get to the bottom of what exactly happened,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters during a briefing. “The leadership of the Secret Service has indicated that they’ll take appropriate steps based on the conclusion of that investigation.”

The rally on Monday was interrupted by protesters, including some from the Black Lives Matter movement. A photographer who was trying to document their removal from the rally was grabbed by the neck and shoved to the ground by a U.S. Secret Service agent.

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video here:

http://time.com/4242967/donald-trump-rally-secret-service-time-photographer-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20time%2Ftopstories%20%28TIME%3A%20Top%20Stories%29

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Secret Service investigating confrontation between reporter and agent at Trump rally (Original Post) deminks Mar 2016 OP
The Rump... 2naSalit Mar 2016 #1
I Really Don't Blame Trump for THAT Event But Stallion Mar 2016 #2
According to CNN and the Secret Service they did not remove the protesters. justhanginon Mar 2016 #3

Stallion

(6,474 posts)
2. I Really Don't Blame Trump for THAT Event But
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 03:56 PM
Mar 2016

the forcible removal of the black students peaceably assembled is very troubling. That is doing Trump's dirty work-he ought to hire his own thugs for that-not the Secret Service paid for by American public. There does need to be an investigation by the Secret Service as to both incidents

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
3. According to CNN and the Secret Service they did not remove the protesters.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 05:22 PM
Mar 2016

That was the hosts and local police. It is on their website.

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