Trump security attacks photojournalist at rally in Virginia

[L. Coyote]

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Source: Michael Walsh Reporter February 29, 2016

A member of the United States Secret Service attacked a Time magazine photographer at a Donald Trump rally, grabbing his neck and slamming him to the ground.

Chris Morris, who has been on contract with Time since 1990, was covering the protests at the Republican presidential frontrunner’s campaign event on Monday at Radford University in Radford, Va.,

“I stepped 18 inches out of the pen and he grabbed me by the neck and started choking me. Then he slammed me to the ground,” Morris told CNN reporter Jim Acosta onsite.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/politics/security-at-trump-event-choke-1375771344773174.html

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"...members of the media are not allowed outside the pen at Trump’s rallies ..."

Follow link for the video.

Wish we lived in a civilized nation!

[rpannier]

1. It's worse

The guy is not Forrest Trump's security
He's Secret Service
Which mans he works for the U.S. Government
Guy needs to be canned

[Major Nikon]

2. I think it also may need to go farther up the chain

They are paid to keep Trump safe, not enforce his stupid fucking rules on the press. It's not hard to imagine this was sanctioned at higher levels.

[Press Virginia]

4. C'mon, HRC is having the secret service rope off reporters in a walking press corral

And making them board their plane before she does so as not to be photographed getting on a private jet.

While I agree the Secret Service shouldn't be enforcing campaign demands that have little to do with actual security of the candidate, Trump isn't the only one guilty of it.

And the agent should be fired

[Yo_Mama]

7. I think the Secret Service actually has protocols to avoid presses/mobs

I don't know that this was the Trump campaign at all.

Apparently the point is to make sure that no one can come up and use a concealed weapon.

It seems lke there is a similar press protocol at these occasions in multiple campaigns.

[L. Coyote]

3. Some disciplinary action has probably already ensued.

Like, no longer on the duty roster.

[C Moon]

5. It's scarily ironic that everyone is using the acronym SS for secret service.

...:O

[Yo_Mama]

6. That's not Trump security. You paid for that federal government employee.

Maybe there's more justification than we know, somehow, but right now it's just a reminder of the string of failures/scandals in the Secret Service.

[BooScout]

8. Locking...

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