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Title: Trump blames 'thugs' for canceling Chicago rally
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URL Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit ... lly/ar-AAgHABO?ocid=spartandhp
Published: Mar 12, 2016
Author: staff
Post Date: 2016-03-12 13:40:24 by buckeroo
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Views: 839
Comments: 11
The Chicago Police Department said late Friday that four men and a woman were arrested at the rally after brief scuffles broke out at the event at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion. Police officials did not detail charges or release names of the individuals taken into custody. However, CBS News said its reporter, Sopan Deb, was detained by law enforcement while covering the scene. Anthony Guglielmi, a police department spokesman, said the Trump campaign did not consult the police department before canceling. "The decision was made by the campaign on its own," Guglielmi said. Suggested from Windows Store USA TODAY The latest news stories, photos, and videos (1,656 Reviews) Updated for Windows 10. The latest news stories, photos, and videos you've come to expect from USA TODAY are now… Get the app Trump was scheduled to hold rallies Saturday in Dayton and Cleveland ahead of primary voting in Ohio on Tuesday. On Twitter, Trump blamed the protesters for Friday's canceled rally. "The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!" he said on Twitter. Chaos ensued after organizers announced at 6:30 p.m. that Trump, who never arrived at the pavilion, had scrubbed the event. Some protesters rushed the arena floor in celebration, many shouting, "Bernie, Bernie" and "We stopped Trump!" Police ejected at least a half dozen anti-Trump demonstrators, including one man who got onto the stage and approached the podium. Joe Fritz, 20, who came to hear Trump speak, said a woman punched him as he stood in a crowd of protesters outside the arena after the rally was canceled. He said the woman was with a girl who about 10 years old and landed a glancing blow to his chin after he questioned her for yelling epithets toward police standing nearby and about Trump. "I told her, 'What kind of example are you setting?'" Fritz said. Fritz said he and his friend were then surrounded by other anti-Trump protesters who screamed at them before police pulled them out of the crowd. Still, the pushing and shoving was brief, and some protesters said security concerns were overstated. "(Trump) felt us tonight and felt our power tonight," said Angelica Salazar, 30, of West Chicago, Ill. Salazar, who went to speak out against Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, said she did not feel unsafe. A protester burns a flag outside of the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is due to speak at a campaign rally March 11, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois.© Jonathan Gibby A protester burns a flag outside of the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is due to speak at a campaign rally March 11, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Matthew Ross, a Chicago activist, said suggestions from Trump that protesters presented a security risk don't hold up. "Have you seen what his supporters have incited at their rallies?" said Ross, who said he had water thrown at him by Trump supporter after it was announced that the rally was canceled. "I think what he (Trump) is doing is inciting violence." Afterward, Trump spoke by phone with several news networks and described many anti-Trump protesters, including those at previous rallies, as violent. "I just don't want people hurt," he told MSNBC. Trump has been criticized about violent comments he and his supporters have made on the campaign trail. When attendees at an event in November kicked a Black Lives Matter activist, Trump said, "Maybe he should have been roughed up." Another supporter, John McGraw, sucker-punched a protester at a rally Wednesday in North Carolina. McGraw later told Inside Edition that "we might have to kill him" next time the protester shows up. Trump insisted that anti-Trump protesters were instigating incidents at his events. “I certainly don’t incite violence," he said. “If a protester is swinging a fist at a man or a group of men, and if they end up going back," he added, "I’m not looking to do him any favors." Trump's rivals for the GOP nomination quickly weighed in on the uproar. Sen. Marco Rubio, speaking Saturday in Florida, blamed the rhetoric of the front-runner for the violence, and the media for ignoring his "offensive" statements for too long. "This is what happen when a leading presidential candidate goes around feeding into a narrative of anger and bitterness and frustration," Rubio said. Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's closest rival in the race, noted that "in any campaign responsibility starts at the top." "When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates," Cruz told reporters in Illinois. "Today is unlikely to be the last such incidence." Fellow GOP candidate John Kasich blamed Friday's events on Trump sowing "seeds of division." "Some let their opposition to his views slip beyond protest into violence, but we can never let that happen," the Ohio governor said in a statement. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said the "divisive rhetoric" of the Trump campaign should be of "grave concern." "We all have our differences, and we know many people across the country feel angry," Clinton said in a statement. "We need to address that anger together." Trump is a loser. Donald Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, on Saturday blamed "thugs" for his decision to cancel a rally in Chicago over alleged security concerns and said the activists had "totally energized America."
Trump has shown himself to be a total dumb fuck by intentionally going into hostile territory and suggesting he is "innocent."
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#3. To: buckeroo (#0)
Trump tries to exercise his free speak and you support the facists who stopped him. I didn't realize that in America we can only go to those places that like us. I'm so sorry Trump got the terrorist murderer Bill Ayers upset.
Trump "t-r-i-e-s" ... When will he actually say sumthing other than how great he is?
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#8. To: calcon (#3)
Trump tries to exercise his free speak and you support the facists who stopped him.
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