Once again protestors and supporters collided at a Donald Trump campaign rally.
During Trump's address Monday, according to a video posted by Buzzfeed's McKay Coppins, who attended the Las Vegas rally, a black protester on the ground was surrounded by security personnel and Trump supporters as one man can be heard yelling, "Light the motherf****r on fire!"
Another woman can be heard telling the guards to let the man go.
(Content warning: Strong language)
And about ten minutes into the Trump rally, this happens. pic.twitter.com/65pXHjsJ3x
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) December 15, 2015"Every time another activist gets dragged out of room, Trump berates reporters for taking pics," Coppins tweeted. "'They are terrible! The worst!' Crowd boos."
Another protester was accused of shouting the Nazi-era salute of "Sieg heil!"
"We came to the rally tonight to make sure issues that matter to us were heard,” Enders Austin III, the protester in the video, told Buzzfeed News after he was removed from the rally.
Austin complained that he received no verbal warning before the security detail used "physical force" to take him away. Other protesters who were with Austin were also reportedly removed.
“What concerns me is that people were yelling racial epithets and hateful things,” Austin said. “I heard the N-word a couple of times.”
“If we really want to make America great again, then we have to come together,” Austin continued. “We have to promote a positive agenda that’s not going to exclude or promote racial hate towards anyone.”
This is the 5th or 6th scuffle to break out at Trump rally between activists and security (w/ Trump fans cheering) pic.twitter.com/sxL2OnZg2g
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) December 15, 2015I'm new to Trump rallies so maybe this is normal (?) but this is unlike any political event I've ever seen.
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) December 15, 2015Trump gleefully narrates clashes between activists and security, press swarm with cameras/phones, supporters crowd around cheering. Surreal.
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) December 15, 2015Every time another activist gets dragged out of room, Trump berates reporters for taking pics. "They are terrible! The worst!" Crowd boos.
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) December 15, 2015Another rowdy protester forcefully dragged away. Trump jokes, "I staged that!" Says it's only way to get press to turn and show crowd size.
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) December 15, 2015(H/T: Buzzfeed News)
