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Tactical Peek

(1,207 posts)
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 12:01 AM Apr 2016

Confrontations Erupt Outside Donald Trump Rally in Costa Mesa

Source: KTLA


A large group of protesters were gathering Thursday night in the street outside the Pacific Amphitheater where Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump kicked off his campaign in the Golden State Thursday night with a huge rally in Costa Mesa .

The event, set to begin at 7 p.m., finally got underway about a half hour later at the OC Fair and Event Center, located at 88 Fair Dr.

A large crowd of people, mostly Trump supporters, started gathering outside the venue hours ahead of the scheduled start time, video from the scene showed.

There were several scuffles outside the event between Trump supporters and those protesting his campaign.



Read more: http://ktla.com/2016/04/28/donald-trump-holding-rally-in-costa-mesa-thursday-evening/

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Confrontations Erupt Outside Donald Trump Rally in Costa Mesa (Original Post) Tactical Peek Apr 2016 OP
Local news and CBS Radio... SoapBox Apr 2016 #1
From what I see, it's more like he owns them. n/t cigsandcoffee Apr 2016 #2
I drove past this today.. a group with large Mexican flags on their trucks were heading over Liberal_in_LA Apr 2016 #3
Pretty sick that we would use brownshirt tactics against our political Akicita Apr 2016 #4

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
1. Local news and CBS Radio...
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 12:07 AM
Apr 2016

We're absolutely wetting their pants about promoting this.

When Bernie had his 25,000 person Rally...they barely mentioned it on the 11P news.

Media...you "bought" Rump...now you own him.

Akicita

(1,196 posts)
4. Pretty sick that we would use brownshirt tactics against our political
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 03:29 AM
Apr 2016

opposition. We should be better than that.

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