Clash? More like assault.
Bernie should apologize immediately.
His whole campaign is a sick joke.
“I went to a fight, and a Trump rally broke-out!”
I don’t like hearing that anti-Trump protesters threw things at Trump supporters. Instigating violence isn’t what the good guys do and just hurts your own side. Very disappointing.
And here I thought it was not possible to lose the moral high ground to Trump. Nice going idiots.
This has got to stop. It’s a shitshow we really don’t need. Somehow a bunch of grown-ass men need to be told that throwing shit at a 120-lb woman DOESN’T LOOK GOOD! Not even if she’s a Trump supporter. This shit can get out of hand too fast. People need to learn how to protest nonviolently again and they need to learn fast.
I saw some of the videos last night…and the woman that got eggs thrown at her, was far from being an innocent bystander.
She comes out of the conference center with a smirk on her face and immediately starts taunting the protesters, pulling out her Trump jersey to show who she is supporting. Even after someone throws food at her, she is still grinning, and turns around and starts shaking her ass at the protesters.
I am not condoning violence, but this woman went out of her way to create a conflict, and she got one.
Why?
Furthermore, let the record show a vote of No-Confidence in Candidate Trump.
Funny how whiny the Trumpians are when people get fed up of being hit and start hitting back.
I going to go ahead and assume snark…
Well played.
Maybe the woman was obnoxious, but taking eggs to a political rally is also going out of your way to create a conflict, and once you throw the egg you’ve crossed a line into being obnoxious in a crime-doing way. And surrounding and punching someone? If you can’t keep your cool at a protest, you need to stay home, sorry. The idea is to let the Trump people make themselves look bad, not tip the scale the other way.
Unfortunately the protesters took the bait.
Her behavior, as per your description, should certainly be answered with language and taunts commensurate with her taunt, nothing physical accept perhaps a healthy middle finger.
Blame the victim much? No excuse for violence. Let them taunt or do whatever the first amendment allows. Throwing food or other violent acts is illegal and opens the door to saying both sides do it.
Yes, illegal…“Criminal Fruit-Tossing in the Fourth Degree”, a capital misdemeanor.
This must stop .
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Trumpism is a wave of disinhibition. Everybody gets caught up in it. All groups have people looking for trouble. As I noted months ago, Trump events are where people can find it.
Josh Marshall ‏@joshtpm 50 minutes ago
Giving in to the madness that Rump’s supporters provoke is a bad move. It only encourages the both siderism meme and, in the end, isn’t productive for the Left. I understand that, in many ways, they warrant the aggression but we lose more than we gain by engaging on THIS level.
At another point, a crowd surrounded a Trump supporter, punching him in the face, according to CNN.
That’s a little more serious than throwing food at someone. We would be outraged if that had been done by Trump supporters. You judge bullies by their behavior and not to which side they belong.
And we have been outraged by that behavior, for months now.
But no, I’m not going to condemn people who are sick of being bullied, and are finally standing up for themselves.
And if you review the available footage of the events, the Trumpian bullies were all taunting and provoking.
It’s not like they were innocent bystanders just walking along minding their own business.
Then how are you different from the Trump supporters who rationalize the use of violence?