After Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Is Charged With Battery, Now His Rally Sees A Teenager Being Sexually Assaulted And Pepper-Sprayed In Face
Donald Trump’s rallies keep getting weirder, and by extension, more violent.
After Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged Tuesday with the misdemeanor charge of simple battery of former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, a new video has emerged of a Donald Trump campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, where a 15-year-old girl can be seen pepper-sprayed by a member of the crowd.
Janesville Police Department confirmed in a statement that the incident took place outside Trump’s rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, adding that the the department is on the lookout for two suspects, one for sexually assaulting the young girl and the other for pepper-spraying her.
“A 15 year [old] girl from Janesville was peppered sprayed in the crowd by a non-law enforcement person… A male in the (crowd) groped the 15 year [old] girl, when she pushed him away; another person in the (crowd) sprayed her. We are currently looking for two suspects, one for the sexual assault and one for the pepper spray.”
A 19-year-old woman from Madison, Wisconsin, also received “second-hand spray,” confirmed the police.
A video of the incident was uploaded on Janesville Community Page, which has since gone viral after receiving more than 2,000 shares. The video shows a young blonde girl confronting a middle-aged man for sexually assaulting her, screaming the words “you f***ing touched my chest.”
But the man, who is also visible in the video, can be seen denying the accusation, putting his hands up in the air and muttering the words “I never touched her” under his breath.
A few seconds later, a member of the crowd sprays the teenage girl’s face in close range, according to CBS. The perpetrator is not visible in the video.
You can watch the video below, courtesy of Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/JanesvilleCommunityPage/videos/1205275129485299/?permPage=1
A related video of the incident, which was posted on Twitter by a journalist working for the Wisconsin State Journal, shows the young girl appearing to pack a punch at someone not visible on screen moments before she was pepper-sprayed.
Here's a video (and prev photo) taken by @derek94gt of the punch/pepper spray incident at the Janesville Trump rally pic.twitter.com/iVCHvsISDi
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) March 29, 2016
Another photo of the moment the girl is pepper-sprayed is also doing rounds on the internet, but only the hand of the person is visible in the photograph.
No photo of the punch, but here's a photo of the pepper spray. Woman received medical treatment, police said. pic.twitter.com/1EOyBbAWQz
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) March 29, 2016
According to reports, the incident took place outside the Holiday Inn Express and Janesville Convention Center, where Donald Trump held a rally Tuesday afternoon. More than 1,000 Trump supporters had gathered inside the venue, with an equal number of people, both supporters and protesters, having gathered outside the venue.
This is of course not the first time that violence has erupted at a Donald Trump rally. His rallies have seen increasing number of protesters turning up lately, with a recourse to violence becoming likely outcomes on most occasions, especially for his supporters.
Trump has himself never denounced his supporters for harassing protesters, with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who supports Trump, even publicly suggesting that protesters should be “hit first and hit hard,” according to ThinkProgress.
In fact, even with his campaign manager arrested, Donald Trump has continued to stand by him, calling him a “an honorable guy” and vowing to sue the reporter, Michelle Fields, who filed a case against Lewandowski.
With Donald Trump’s rallies getting more and more violent, it is possible that his future rallies will have to be more secure, but neither the protesters, and nor his supporters, seem to be backing out of the rift Trump’s campaign has evidently caused in the country.
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