So Donald Trump wants guns in schools and blames Gun Free Zones for gun violence – but insists no guns allowed in his rallies. Saturday night in Reno, his paranoid followers freaked out when a guy unrolled a poster and started screaming “Gun! Gun!”
Reports: Trump rally disrupted when attendee's sign mistaken for a gun https://t.co/NSCX635bOV pic.twitter.com/wArGnuWKJ1
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) November 6, 2016
It only reminded me of how the pros handle things:
https://youtu.be/VUGmNL8Oi74
Donald Trump just straight up lied about how President Obama responded to a pro-Trump protester pic.twitter.com/nd1Dhk3bwE
— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) November 5, 2016
As it turns out, the Republican with the poster (the poster said “Republicans Against Trump”) pretty much had the crap beat out of him.
Initially, there was the expected reaction of people around him booing, he said. “And then all of a sudden people next to me are starting to get violent; they’re grabbing at my arm, trying to rip the sign out of my hand,” he said.
He said he could not be sure but “it looked like” Trump was pointing at him, and may have been “instigating something”. Either way, the crowd piled on him, he said, kicking, punching, holding him on the ground and grabbing his testicles.
He said he was a wrestler in his youth and used his training to turn his head to the side to maintain an airway open as he was being choked by one man who had him in a headlock. “But there were people wrenching on my neck they could have strangled me to death,” he added.
Crites said when he was on the ground he heard someone yell “something about a gun” and he kept telling those on top of him that he had merely been holding a sign.
He was unaware, until the Guardian told him, that Trump had been ushered from the stage amid the mayhem.
For his part, Crites said he felt relieved when police arrived and placed him in handcuffs, but said officers had to fend off Trump supporters who continued to attack him. “As I was taken from the room, people are just looking at me like I’m a demon,” he said.
Meanwhile:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/795075052098224129
