Cops say Trump camp wanted black students kicked out of rally
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Protesters, and certainly black ones, are not welcome anywhere near The Donald.
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The group of black college students who were booted from a Donald Trump campaign rally in Georgia on Monday were removed at the campaign’s request, local law enforcement told MSNBC.
About 30 students had planned to sit in silent protest during the rally on the Valdosta State University campus, but police said they were directed to remove them at the specific request of a Trump staffer.“A member of the [Trump] event staff approached a member of our agency and requested that the group be asked to leave,” Capt. Stryde Jones, a Lowndes County Sheriff’s officer, told the network.
Another member of local law enforcement who worked the event backed up Jones’ account.
“I spoke to a Trump staffer, whose name I do not have, she told us that they needed to leave,” Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress told MSNBC. “Not only did I talk to a Trump staffer, so did the University police, and we were told over the radio by the Sheriff’s office that Trump staff wanted them out.”
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