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Donald Trump Cancels Chicago rally due to protests. Chaos and mayhem. Bloody protests in St Louis, 32 arrested.

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><div class&equals;"articleWide cleared">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"alpha">&NewLine;<h1><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;small&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;normal&semi;"><b>Supporters and opponents of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump assemble in advance of a Chicago rally&period;<&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article-text wide"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e0404&semi;"><strong>It&&num;8217&semi;s been coming&period; The Trumpmania generated violence is here at last&excl; Chicago and St Louis&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article-text wide"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e0404&semi;"><strong>The minority divide widens&period; Shades of George Wallace&comma; Nixonque&quest; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article-text wide"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e0404&semi;"><strong>We have finally descended into &&num;8216&semi;Political Rascality&period;&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article-text wide"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e0404&semi;"><strong>May God help us if we do not get a handle on the situation &&num;8230&semi; Huge violent protests<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"js-article-text" class&equals;"article-text wide"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;cc0000&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;"><i><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;normal&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon;black&semi;">&&num;8230&semi; stories and videos after cut<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;i><&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"trb&lowbar;ar&lowbar;sponsoredmod trb&lowbar;barker&lowbar;mediaconductor">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"agg-wrapper">Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump canceled his Friday night rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion due to security concerns as thousands of protesters gathered outside&period;Inside the arena&comma; an announcement was made that Trump arrived in Chicago and met with law enforcement officials&comma; and that due to protesters &&num;8220&semi;in and out of the arena&comma; tonight&&num;8217&semi;s rally will be postponed until another day&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"agg-wrapper">&&num;8220&semi;We stopped Trump&comma;&&num;8221&semi; protesters inside chanted&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Officials moved to empty the arena with an announcement of &&num;8220&semi;please exit the building&&num;8221&semi; over the public-address system<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<p>Some Trump backers were forced to move through a gauntlet of protesters&comma; many of whom were shouting at them&comma; calling them &&num;8220&semi;bigots&&num;8221&semi; and singing&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Sha-na-na-na&comma; na-na-na-na&comma; hey&comma; hey&comma; goodbye&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-27055" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday2" width&equals;"777" height&equals;"437" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"Zr08FcNiRCM" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;Zr08FcNiRCM" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;Zr08FcNiRCM&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;Zr08FcNiRCM&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;"> At one point&comma; a group of supporters and demonstrators nearly exchanged blows&period; Amid the chaotic scene&comma; some demonstrators peddled T-shirts reading &&num;8220&semi;Donald &lpar;Expletive&rpar; Trump&period;&&num;8221&semi; One little girl sported an anti-Trump sign with a pun&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We shall overcomb&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Earlier on Friday at a rally in St&period; Louis&comma; Trump continued to taunt those who interrupt his events while promising that police and security would be &&num;8220&semi;gentle&&num;8221&semi; as they removed them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;They&&num;8217&semi;re allowed to get up and interrupt us horribly and we have to be very&comma; very gentle&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump said in response to one of nearly a dozen interruptions as he spoke in St&period; Louis at the regal Peabody Opera House&period; &&num;8220&semi;They can swing and hit people&comma; but if we hit them back&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a terrible&comma; terrible thing&comma; right&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Throughout his St&period; Louis speech&comma; Trump was deeply critical of the protesters&comma; all of whom appeared to leave the venue largely without incident&period; Police later said that 31 people were arrested and charged with general peace disturbance&comma; and one person was charged outside the venue with third-degree assault&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"articleWide cleared">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"alpha">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"js-article-text" class&equals;"article-text wide">&NewLine;<p>The presidential candidate panned the protesters as weak &&num;8220&semi;troublemakers&comma;&&num;8221&semi; ordered them to &&num;8220&semi;go home to mommy&&num;8221&semi; or &&num;8220&semi;go home and get a job&&num;8221&semi; because &&num;8220&semi;they contribute nothing&period;&&num;8221&semi;&&num;8221&semi;These are not good people&comma; just so you understand&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump said&period; &&num;8220&semi;These are not the people who made our country great&period; These are the people that are destroying our country&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In Chicago&comma; several protesters were removed from the arena before the rally was canceled&period; One section appeared to be filled with youths protesting his appearance&comma; a majority of them African-American&comma; Latino&comma; Arab-American and Asian-American&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Before the official who announced the cancellation took the stage&comma; a female protester shouted &&num;8220&semi;f&&num;8212&semi; Trump&&num;8221&semi; while holding a &&num;8220&semi;No Hate&&num;8221&semi; sign&period; People in the upper balcony threw debris at her&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As of 6&colon;50 p&period;m&period;&comma; there had been no arrests or injuries&comma; said Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi&period; Interim Superintendent John Escalante is on the scene&period; The Police Department was notified by university officials that the event would be shut down&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Leading up to the postponed rally&comma; the crowd of protesters grew and police officers&comma; including one on horseback&comma; expanded the area to accommodate their larger numbers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nineteen-year-old Radia Mchabcheb said she came from Villa Park to stand against Trump&period; &&num;8220&semi;There&&num;8217&semi;s no support for hateful kinds of speech&comma; especially for presidential candidates&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Protesters chanted &&num;8220&semi;Hey&comma; hey&period; Ho&comma; ho&period; Donald Trump has got to go&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A few Trump backers lashed back at demonstrators&comma; shouting&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Build the wall&excl;&&num;8221&semi; a reference to Trump&&num;8217&semi;s pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border — and have Mexico pay for it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While emotions ran high&comma; a phalanx of Chicago police officers worked to keep Trump&&num;8217&semi;s fans and foes on opposite sides of Harrison Street&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thousands turned out to see Trump&comma; while outside the pavilion thousands of demonstrators had gathered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump&&num;8217&semi;s visit before Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s presidential primary in Illinois raised concerns on campus&comma; with dozens of UIC faculty and staff signing a petition begun by a student leader asking how security would be handled and who would pay for it&period; More than 40&comma;000 people signed it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A 24-hour vigil leading up to Trump&&num;8217&semi;s campaign stop and organized by Latino community leaders began late Thursday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Chicagoan and paramedic Deirdre Fennessy held up a sign with a swastika that replaced the &&num;8220&semi;U&&num;8221&semi; in the Republican presidential front-runner&&num;8217&semi;s name&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Chicagoans don&&num;8217&semi;t want him here&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Fennessy said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re not paying attention to them&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said a Trump supporter from Villa Park who gave his name as &&num;8220&semi;Tony&&num;8221&semi; and said he immigrated from Italy 40 years ago&period; He praised the hotel magnate&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;management skills&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Most people who turned out for Trump were white&period; Farice Campbell&comma; a 21-year-old African-American man from Chicago&comma; said he came out of curiosity&comma; and to see Trump supporters up close&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We came to see in real life how this all plays out&comma; and the reasons to support Trump&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Campbell said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;With him was 18-year-old Portia Torrens&comma; of Oswego&comma; who is also black&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;This is a huge part of history&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s good to be a part of it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-large&semi;"><i>St Louis&period; MO<&sol;i><&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h6><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27056" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday3" width&equals;"636" height&equals;"382" &sol;>Bloodied protester is escorted from Trump rally after activists shut the event down for ten minutes and The Donald tells supporters &&num;8216&semi;the problem is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article-text wide">Donald Trump held a rally at the Peabody Opera House in St Louis today Thousands of supporters turned out to hear him&comma; with many left listening outside after the 3&comma;000 seat auditorium filled up They were met with thousands more anti-Trump activists&comma; many from the Black Lives Matter movement who protested in Ferguson Multiple fights broke out&comma; with police forced to erect metal barriers and one bloodied man filmed as he was escorted by police Trump&&num;8217&semi;s rally was interrupted by a group of demonstrators who made it inside&comma; with The Donald becoming frustrated with attempts to remove them Lamenting that it was taking so long&comma; he said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;000000&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;font-weight&colon;normal&semi;"><i>&&num;8216&semi;Part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore<&sol;i><&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;"><i>&&num;8216&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>A bloodied protester has been filmed being escorted from a Donald Trump rally in St Louis on Friday as demonstrators shut the event down for ten minutes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The black activist&comma; who gave his name as Anthony Cage&comma; was filmed being escorted into a police van by two St Louis officers with blood across his face and down the front of his sweater&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;There had been signs of trouble as early as 8am when people began queuing outside the Peabody Opera House to get tickets&comma; with large groups of pro and anti-Trump fans shouting at one another&period;<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b><br &sol;>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27057" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday4" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"423" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Police detain a man after a fight between supporters and opponents of U&period;S&period; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump&comma; ahead of his speech outside the Peabody Opera House in St&period; Louis&comma; Missouri<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-small&semi;"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27058" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday5&period;jpg" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"431" &sol;><&sol;span><b><br &sol;>&NewLine;The black activist&comma; who gave his name as Anthony Cage&comma; was filmed being escorted into a police van by two St Louis officers with blood across his face and down the front of his sweater <&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27059" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday6" width&equals;"306" height&equals;"510" &sol;><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27060" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday7&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday7" width&equals;"306" height&equals;"510" &sol;><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"splitLeft"><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"splitRight"><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b>A bloodied protester was pictured after being taken from a Donald Trump rally in Missouri today after anti-Trump activists clashed with demonstrators<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-27061" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday10&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday10&period;png" width&equals;"651" height&equals;"471" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;The rally was interrupted for ten minutes after activists made it inside the Peabody Opera House in St Louis&comma; with Trump complaining about the delay&comma; saying&colon; &&num;8216&semi;The problem is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-small&semi;"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-27062" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday11&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday11&period;png" width&equals;"705" height&equals;"397" &sol;><&sol;span><b><br &sol;>&NewLine;A demonstrator is removed from inside the Peabody Opera House during Trump&&num;8217&semi;s rally in St Louis<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-small&semi;"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-27064" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday12&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday12&period;png" width&equals;"728" height&equals;"461" &sol;><&sol;span><b><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-small&semi;"><i><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;i><&sol;span>Police move in to arrest a group of demonstrators after they began chanting slogans and waving banners comparing Trump to the KK during his rally in St Louis today<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>After a large number of demonstrators sneaked into the event and began a coordinated protest inside&comma; Trump told the crowd&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore&comma; right&quest;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;And they&&num;8217&semi;re being politically correct the way they take them out&period; So it takes a little bit longer&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the River Front Times reported&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Demonstrators pulled off their jackets to reveal anti-Trump slogans&comma; or produced banners&comma; at least one of which compared Trump to the KKK&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump repeatedly summoned police to remove the demonstrators&comma; and seemed to become irritated after it took ten minutes to escort them out&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It is not clear how the activist was injured&comma; but there were multiple scuffles between Trump supporters and demonstrators&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Other reports indicated that the man was not arrested&comma; but instead had his wounds treated and was allowed to walk free&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The fresh scenes of violence come after Trump supporter John McGraw&comma; 78&comma; was caught on camera hitting Rakeem Jones&comma; 26&comma; at another event in Fayetteville&comma; North Carolina&comma; on Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"moduleFull mol-video"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27065" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday13&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday13" width&equals;"614" height&equals;"405" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b>Thousands of anti-Trump protesters&comma; some Black Lives Matter activists and veterans of the Ferguson demonstrations&comma; wave banners and chanted slogans outside the venue<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27066" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday15&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday15&period;png" width&equals;"615" height&equals;"354" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b>Trump supporters were also out in force&comma; with lines for the rally stretching around the block and thousands of people left to listen on loudspeakers outside<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27067" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday17&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday17" width&equals;"621" height&equals;"364" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b><br &sol;>&NewLine;Police were forced to erect metal barriers between the two factions as tempers repeatedly threatened to boil over&comma; with Trump supporters chanting &&num;8216&semi;build the wall&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"moduleFull mol-video"> Quizzed by Inside Edition on why he hit the black demonstrator&comma; McGraw responded &&num;8216&semi;we don&&num;8217&semi;t know if he&&num;8217&semi;s ISIS&&num;8217&semi;&comma; before adding&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Next time we see him&comma; we might have to kill him&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In response to the alleged attack&comma; R&amp&semi;B singer Chris Brown urged black protesters to travel in groups to avoid being attacked&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the New York Daily News&comma; the singer said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Man&comma; this s&ast;&ast;&ast; is getting crazy&period; Black people getting assaulted at f&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;ing rallies where you’re supposed to talk at&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;What you need to start doing &&num;8211&semi; all these black people&comma; go together 40&comma; 50 deep&period; See what they do then&period; Keep touching us&comma; motherf&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump has repeatedly refuted allegations that his often incendiary rhetoric&comma; particularly against Muslims and Mexicans&comma; has incited violence&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Organizers at Trump rallies have also been advising attendees on how to deal with demonstrators&comma; saying they should chant and wave banners while waiting for the authorities&comma; and have warned against getting physically involved themselves&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thousands of people turned out to hear Trump speak in Missouri on Friday with a line hours long stretching around the block for tickets to be allowed inside the 3&comma;000 seat theater&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thousands more were left standing outside where they listened to the speech on loudspeakers&comma; with anti-Trump protesters chanting slogans nearby&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-27068" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday18&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday18" width&equals;"608" height&equals;"807" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b>The Fresh violence comes two days after John McGraw&comma; 78 &lpar;left&rpar;&comma; was arrested after allegedly punching a black activist at a Trump rally &lpar;right&rpar; claiming &&num;8216&semi;we don&&num;8217&semi;t know if he&&num;8217&semi;s ISIS&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;27069" style&equals;"width&colon; 639px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-27069" class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-27069" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday19&period;jpg" alt&equals;"TRUMP PUNCH" width&equals;"629" height&equals;"835" &sol;><p id&equals;"caption-attachment-27069" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">TRUMP supporter John McGraw punching protester<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitLeft"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitRight"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b>The Fresh violence comes two days after John McGraw&comma; 78 &lpar;left&rpar;&comma; was arrested after allegedly punching a black activist at a Trump rally &lpar;right&rpar; claiming &&num;8216&semi;we don&&num;8217&semi;t know if he&&num;8217&semi;s ISIS&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"N3coxO5wIko" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;N3coxO5wIko" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;N3coxO5wIko&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;N3coxO5wIko&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Security were forced to erect steel barriers to keep the two parties apart as tensions threatened to boil over&comma; video from the event shows&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to local reports&comma; many of the anti-Trump protesters were from Black Lives Matter&comma; and had previously been involved in rallies in Ferguson following the shooting of Michael Brown&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump had to answer questions at Thursday night&&num;8217&semi;s GOP debate about violence involving his supporters clashing with opponents at rallies&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Friday&&num;8217&semi;s gathering in St&period; Louis was his first public campaign event since Wednesday&&num;8217&semi;s rally&comma; and Trump lashed out at the criticism&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;You know&comma; they talk about a protest or something&period; They don&&num;8217&semi;t talk about what&&num;8217&semi;s really happing in these forums and these rooms and these stadiums&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Trump said&period; &&num;8216&semi;They don&&num;8217&semi;t talk about the love&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He added that he and his supporters aren&&num;8217&semi;t angry people&comma; but they &&num;8216&semi;do get angry when we see the stupidity with which our country is run and how it&&num;8217&semi;s being destroyed&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27070" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday20&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday20&period;png" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"438" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump was quizzed over whether his rallies incite violence at the GOP debate on Thursday night&comma; a claim he denied&comma; saying people don&&num;8217&semi;t report on the &&num;8216&semi;love&&num;8217&semi; shown by supporters<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27071" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday21&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday21" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"394" &sol;><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>Local news stations reported queues of several hours long stretching around the block in order to hear Trump speak before he attends another event this evening in Chicago &lpar;pictured&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27072" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday23&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday23&period;png" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"361" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump supporters wait in line outside the UIC Pavilion in Chicago where Trump is expected to hold another rally tonight with more heavy security planned<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Earlier Friday at a news conference in Palm Beach&comma; Florida&comma; Trump applauded his supporters who have taken on protesters who he says have gotten physical at his rallies&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;The audience hit back&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period; &&num;8216&semi;And that&&num;8217&semi;s what we need a little bit more of&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Later Friday&comma; Trump will hold an evening rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago — a civil and immigrant rights organizing hub with large minority student populations&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump&&num;8217&semi;s visit has already created waves on the campus&period; Dozens of UIC faculty and staff petitioned university administrators to cancel the rally&comma; citing concerns it would create a &&num;8216&semi;hostile and physically dangerous environment&&num;8217&semi; for students&period; Chicago police plan a heavy presence&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Rep&period; Luis Gutierrez&comma; student activists and longtime Chicago organizers are all planning to protest outside the university venue over issues that include what they called Trump&&num;8217&semi;s disparaging comments&comma; particularly about Muslims and Mexicans&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s campaign&comma; it incites hatred and violence with the things he says with marginalized groups that are very prevalent UIC&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Casandra Rebledo&comma; a 19-year-old nursing student&period; &&num;8216&semi;This is something we feel is a form of empowerment&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><b><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27073" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday25&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday25&period;png" width&equals;"614" height&equals;"399" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump speaks to supporters at his rally in St Louis today which had to be paused for ten minutes after a large group of protesters got inside and started shouting slogans<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27074" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday26&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday26&period;png" width&equals;"618" height&equals;"424" &sol;><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>Republican candidate Donald Trump greets supporters at the end of a rally at the Peabody Opera House<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27075" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;bloody&lowbar;tuesday27&period;png" alt&equals;"bloody&lowbar;tuesday27&period;png" width&equals;"616" height&equals;"402" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump signs merchandise including books and hats at the end of his rally in St Louis today<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Gutierrez said he had no plans to enter the event&period; Instead&comma; he would rally in a parking lot outside with a message focused on welcoming all&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re not going to let Donald Trump take us back to the 1950s&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Gutierrez&comma; a Chicago Democrat&comma; who has long rallied for immigrant rights&period; &&num;8216&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve worked too hard&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Organizers of a student-led group&comma; who expected hundreds of participants&comma; planned to meet on campus and march to the arena where Trump will speak and set up shop in a nearby parking lot&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Members of Black Lives Matter Chicago&comma; which has held largely peaceful smaller protests following a police-involved shooting in Chicago&comma; also planned to participate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Chicago police said they were coordinating with the Secret Service&comma; university police and fire department officials on logistics&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;People can expect to see a very visible police presence&comma;&&num;8217&semi; police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"background-color&colon;white&semi;color&colon;black&semi;overflow&colon;hidden&semi;text-align&colon;left&semi;text-decoration&colon;none&semi;">&NewLine;<h6><i><b>Lets us know what you think of this article&period; Like&quest; Dislike&quest; Funny&quest; Interesting&quest; Cool&quest;  Drop us a line in the comment box or join us on facebook to help us give you a better reading experience <&sol;b><&sol;i><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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