Endless finger pointing has been happening regarding a group of 30 black student protesters at Valdosta State University who were reported kicked out of a Donald Trump campus campaign rally on Monday, according to USA Today. The students claim they were sitting silently in protest when they were escorted out.
“We didn’t plan to do anything,” Tahjila Davis, one of the visibly upset and tearful protesters, told USA Today. The students claimed that their only intent was the watch the rally in silent protest.
BREAKING: About 30 Valdosta students kicked out of Trump rally. They say they were standing silently in bleachers. pic.twitter.com/VDeWpICIAr
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“The only reason we were given was that Mr. Trump did not want us there,” Brooke Gladney, another protester, said of the incident.
According to the Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks, “There is no truth to that whatsoever. The campaign had no knowledge of this incident.”
The Secret Service and the Valdosta police both deny throwing the students out of the rally.
Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress told USA Today that the students “were told the leave the PE complex by the Trump detail,” but said he thought it was the right decision as the students had allegedly been “disruptive.”
The incident came just one day before Super Tuesday, the day of primaries that could predict the Republican presidential nominee. Like it or not, it’s looking more and more likely that it will be Trump who will receive the nomination.