‘Disruptive’ man booted from Trump rally in Alabama
Donald Trump's campaign trail returned to Alabama on Saturday, when the Republican candidate spoke in Birmingham.
A few people were not excited about his return.
As Trump was talking about his lead in a recent poll, an altercation took place in the crowd.
A member of Trump’s staff, who declined to be named, claimed the three people involved were members of the civil rights group Black Lives Matter.
Two of them were asked to stop and complied, said the staff member. The third did not.
“The guy was being disruptive,” the staff member said. “He was doing the Black Lives Matter thing and saying other phrases that were really firing up the crowd around him. He was throwing his hands around almost punching.”
A few attendees took the man to the ground, and Secret Service arrived to escort him out. The man walked out of the auditorium waving his middle finger at the crowd and stage. All the while, Trump encouraged the removal of the alleged antagonist.
“Get him out of here! Yeah you can get him out,” Trump said to applause.
It was the second time in three days that someone disrupted a Trump rally. The other occurred two days ago at a rally in Worcester, Mass., and Trump referenced that incident Saturday.
“The other night I had one guy who was seriously obese,” Trump said. “He complained when I mentioned food stamps, and the guy went crazy and said that wasn’t politically correct. Who cares?”