Students removed from Trump rally in Georgia

[brooklynite]

Source: USA Today

VALDOSTA, Ga. — About 30 black students who were standing silently at the top of the bleachers at Donald Trump’s rally here Monday night were escorted out by Secret Service agents who said the presidential candidate had requested their removal before he began speaking.

The sight of the students, who were visibly upset, being led outside by law enforcement officials created a stir at a university that was a whites-only campus until 1963.

“We didn’t plan to do anything,” said a tearful Tahjila Davis, a 19-year-old mass media major, who was among the Valdosta State University students who was removed. “They said, 'This is Trump’s property; it’s a private event.' But I paid my tuition to be here.”

Trump has been regularly heckled by protesters at his campaign rallies, but tensions have increased after he came under fire on Sunday for not immediately condemning support from a prominent white supremacist.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/29/donald-trump-georgia-rally-valdosta/81129964/?siteID=je6NUbpObpQ-x4BiDmaQxdPpy65d4FN_pA

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I didn't think Trump could have made the KKK story worse, but he's done it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. His numbers will jump at least 3% on that news.

The knuckledraggers will lap it up like kittens at a bowl of milk.

[hibbing]

8. Only 3%

Maybe a bit more. I do find it fascinating watching the corporate media whores speculating on his popularity, they are sooooooooo scared to face the reality that a good percentage of Americans are racist and that is the appeal. They will say all other kinds of reasons, oh they are angry at Washington blah blah blah.


Peace

[LannyDeVaney]

2. A group of young African-Americans at his speech yesterday ...

(they were wearing Alabama A&M shirts, I can't guarantee they were students) were escorted out of his Alabama speech. They were all raising a single closed fist in the air.

I know a media person at the event and they said folks were screaming "Go clean the bathrooms!" as the protesters were escorted out.

Note: They were escorted out by Madison PD, not Secret Service. Of course, the Madison PD has been in the news for body slamming the visiting elderly Indian grandfather who didn't speak English.

[Person 2713]

9. Wow that is disgusting . Trump voters are a sick mob screaming crap like that

[houston16revival]

3. This is going to get ugly

If there was any doubt as to his intentions, this ended it

[liberalhistorian]

4. Why the hell is the Secret Service

doing shit like this? Seriously?

[Feeling the Bern]

11. Their motto is "You elect them, we protect them." Like good little robotic LEO slime

"they are just following orders."

[cstanleytech]

17. You mean why are they providing security for one of the people running for president?

Thats their job.

[getagrip_already]

21. no....

Why are they acting like trumps personal bouncers. They are there to protect him, not be a bunch of jackbooted thugs.

Protect yes, take orders, no.

[liberalhistorian]

22. Exactly. and certainly

not to evict minority students doing nothing except "standing while black." Mussolini would be proud.

[cstanleytech]

23. Because they have the discretion to screen anyone for any reason from events

or atleast the majority of SCOTUS appear to believe they do

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/12/scotus.free.speech/

That could change in time but that would probably require a major change in the courts makeup which would probably also require a major change in the Senates makeup which I dont see happening any time soon.

[getagrip_already]

24. discretion is a funny word...

It doesn't mean "do what you are told". My read of it is that you do what is called for, given the circumstances, to accomplish a goal.

The goal shouldn't be to do whatever it is you are asked to do. They should use their discretion and refuse some tasks......

[cstanleytech]

28. Yes it is but then again consider the number of possible

scenarios they must prepare for and thats why they are given such discretion but thankfully we have a choice not to attend such events where they will be.

[getagrip_already]

29. I'm not against them haveing discretion...

just misusing it.

If they have a choice, they should choose the option which doesn't infringe on someones rights (as long as it doesn't put their pet at risk).

[Depaysement]

5. He doesn't care

Next up? Daddy's Nazis. Coming soon.

[Cheese Sandwich]

6. Georgia State students bounced from Clinton rally over "Black Lives Matter" sign

A disturbing pattern.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141361470

[saturnsring]

7. well there is a difference between the2

[Feeling the Bern]

12. Hillary = D. Trump = R.

So it's okay to remove protesters exercising their first amendment rights if you're a Democrat, but wrong if you're a Republican.

And I see it both wrong.

[saturnsring]

25. one group came in wearing protest signs and one group did not - to those who dont want

Hillary to win it's a big deal (because when people get desperate they'll throw the kitchen sink at whomever just like Hillary did when she was losing to barack Obama) and those who want Hillary to win wont

[Igel]

20. Yeah, actually.

One was based on actions. They took a sign and repurposed it away from the rally's message to another group's message.

The other was based on suspicions. The students did nothing but stand--perhaps to call attention to themselves, but if ignored that may have been the extent of it. Or perhaps not.

The usual denials and attempt at any cost to say "I'm innocent" would probably have followed. In the HRC case, they blamed HRC--if they hadn't been given the sign, they wouldn't have written on it, so it's not really their fault. Yes, really, they were that lame, but that's what one said. And apparently thought it was a good excuse.

In this, although it's a hired venue (and therefore private) the girl paid her tuition and had a right to be there. (Heck, a lot of guys paid their tuition, too, but she wouldn't have taken that as justification for them being in her dorm room or the women's bathroom when she wanted them out).

[saturnsring]

27. paying tutition isnt an all access pass to whereever you want whenever you want it

like you said if i paid tuition should i expect to be able to sit in the shower/locker rooms anytime I wanted. now of course i'll get the "that's not the same thing " retorts. I guess to one group it will a ridiculous analogy but to another it wont.

[keithbvadu2]

30. "sit in the shower/locker rooms"

Huckabee would support you on that one.

[hobbit709]

14. Want to bet on which group alerted on you?

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[keithbvadu2]

10. "standing silently" - must be a bad sign

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Standing While Black. . . . nt

[Kelvin Mace]

13. So, the Secret Service is now his personal goon squad?

Just when I think my respect for the USSS could get lower...

[liberalhistorian]

16. It gets even worse.

A Gestapo--uh, Secret Service--agent just choked and bodyslammed a journalist, a Time photographer no less, at a Trump rally in Virginia. When you look at the video, it's like you're looking directly at a Mussolini Brown Shirt. And this is a fucking Secret Service agent! They really are his goon squad now. Yet, these are the same people who cannot keep crazies from jumping the White House fence and getting inside, carrying a knife.

[Lazy Daisy]

15. This is a surprise to anybody?

Trump has made it very clear he is inciting the worse of the worse in our country. Every closet bigot is now showing their ugly face thinking it's OK to come out of the shadows. It's our job to make sure he doesn't get to The White House.

[joshdawg]

18. They should have left the students alone,

and removed chump instead............in handcuffs.

[HassleCat]

26. Someone needs to rein in the goddamn secret service

They are federal officers. They serve the public. Their job is to protect the candidate, not act as his goon squad, protect him from hecklers, etc. Let him hire his own goons. The taxpayers should not have to pay for his thug squad.