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http://fusion.net/story/282782/trump-protester-beaten-arizona-corey-lewandowski/

Another Donald Trump rally descended into violent chaos on Saturday night, as one protester was brutally beaten and Trump’s own campaign manager was involved in an altercation.

A man with a sign that showed Trump’s face and the words “Bad for America” was walking up the stairs at the event in Tucson, AZ when a man suddenly attacked him, kicking him and punching him repeatedly.

The man, Bryan Sanders, talked to NBC News about the incident. “What was going through my mind was: Put your arms over your head, because this political movement has gotten to the point where you may get beat to death inside of a rally,” he said.

Meanwhile, Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, was caught on tape manhandling another protester, grabbing his collar and jostling him around as security surrounded him.

Lewandowski was also caught grabbing former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields earlier in the month; Fields subsequently resigned from the site after it refused to fully take her side against the Trump campaign.

Trump has repeatedly brushed off any controversy surrounding Lewandowski, and on Sunday’s “This Week,” he denied that the Arizona incident had even happened.

“That was somebody else pulling him,” he said.

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VIDEO on Link

This beating was worse than the last one.  And below a related story:


A Paranoid Donald Trump Lies And Blames Arizona Rally Violence On Protesters

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/03/20/paranoid-donald-trump-lies-blames-arizona-rally-violence-protesters.html

An obviously paranoid Donald Trump told numerous lies while blaming the violence at his rally in Arizona on the protesters during an interview on ABC’s This Week.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But what about this violence…

TRUMP: And it was beautiful. Then…

STEPHANOPOULOS: — Mr. Trump?

TRUMP: — then — well, then a little bit later on, we went, uh, to other areas. I mean we — we went all over — frankly, we went all over Arizona, uh, and we went to Tucson and we had so many people that wouldn’t allow people for the rally into the door. They were making it almost impossible to get in. We had 6,000 or 7,000 people, at least. We had 2,000 people outside. They wouldn’t allow them in.

These people are very disruptive. People, George.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But does that excuse…

TRUMP: These are not innocent lambs.

STEPHANOPOULOS: — punching and kicking a protester?

TRUMP: Well, you know, he was wearing — he or his partner was wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit. This happened to be an African-American man who was very — a person at the rally, who was very, very incensed at the fact that somebody, a protester, would be wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

And he went…

STEPHANOPOULOS: You appear to be…

TRUMP: — pretty wild…

STEPHANOPOULOS: Using that…

TRUMP: — and frankly…

STEPHANOPOULOS: — (INAUDIBLE) kicking and punching (INAUDIBLE)…

TRUMP: — frankly, that was a, you know, it was a tough thing to watch. And I watched that.

But why would a protester walk into a room with a Ku Klux Klan outfit on?

STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, it looked like he was wearing an American flag right there.

But does that justify violence…

TRUMP: Well, you would have seen him…

STEPHANOPOULOS: — punching and kicking?

TRUMP: — if you would have seen him just before he went up the stairs, him and his partner were wearing — one of them was wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not going to condemn the protester who kicked and punched that person?

TRUMP: We don’t condone violence and I say it. And we have very little violence, very, very little violence at the rallies. Uh, as I said, in Phoenix, we had 21,000 people. We had — we didn’t even have anybody stand up and — and try and disrupt, you know, the disrupters. And they’re really stopping our First Amendment rights. If you think about it, George, they block — they blocked a road, they put their cars in front of a road. We had thousands and thousands of people wanting to come. They were delayed for an hour because of these protesters.

And, you know, at what point do people blame the protesters?

These are people that are profit agitators…
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re blaming the protesters, not the person who actually punched and kicked the protester?

TRUMP: No, I’m — I’m saying this. These are professional agitators and I think that somebody should say that when a road is blocked going into the event so that people have to wait sometimes hours to get in, I think that’s very fair and there should be blame there, too.

When signs are put up, lifted up with tremendous profanity on them, I mean the worst profanity, and you have television cameras all over the place and people see these signs, I think maybe those people have some blame and should suffer some blame, also.



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The early stories got it wrong about the protestor wearing a KKK outfit. He clearly was not.   The girl he was with who was not part of the fight was wearing a hood however.

The incident began when Pettway spotted an anti-Trump protester at the rally who was carrying a sign that read, “Trump is bad for America.”  The protester, who has been identified as 33-year-old Bryan Sanders, was wearing an American flag shirt as law enforcement officers were escorting him outside the rally. Video footage shows Pettway reaching over and grabbing the protester’s sign before punching him and kicking him. Pettway could then be seen as he was escorted from the rally in handcuffs.
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Where is the violence at Cruz rallies? 

There isn't any, you say?

Roy Moore's "spiritual warfare" is driving past a junior high without stopping.

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Absolutely, he has set the tone.    Protestors have been infiltrating Republican and Democratic events since I’ve been watching politics 40 years ago.  I have seen them escorted out by security or police, and rightfully so, but I have never ever seen a crowd turn violent against one, much less given permission to do so by the candidate.  Yet in this one election with just one candidate, we have seen at least 2 incidents inside the venue, and still others on the outside. And with each incident it seems to spur more protestors, which results in increased odds that it is going to turn ugly.

Trump could if he really wanted to, strongly condemn violent acts and apologies to HIS people if gave them the impression that such acts we OK.   That would be the right thing to do, The Republican thing to do.  But he hasn’t and he won’t. I think he rather enjoys it because it gives him more publicity.
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Trump owns this one.  The stuff outside the rallies isn't his (so long as he isn't directly or indirectly telling his supporters to confront the protestors) but the stuff inside the rallies he owns, and that means he owns the violent behavior of his supporters. 

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Watch in the video the guy in the background with a gray shirt a long beard. His reaction is just as concerning to me as the thug punching the protestor.


Is this the  Maury Povich Show audience or a campaign rally. It's hard to tell. 
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I read about this video elsewhere and it was touted as black man righteously hitting a KKK hood wearing protester.  The truth is quite different.

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 :2popcorn:

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