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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumssomebody tell me pls - about the Secret Service ejecting people from trump rallies
I heard on Democracy Now just now TWO incidents where the Secret Service at the request of d.dumptrump., ejected people. Including a group of young Black people who were standing silently.
Aren't the Secret Service employees of the Federal Govt?
how do they become goons for trump?
malaise
(269,048 posts)at the level of violence meted out by Secret Service - something is wrong. SS must return to Treasury Dept.
All SS standards have deteriorated since they moved to HS. Are the Trump goons giving SS instructions - seems very strange and frightening.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)he grabbed him as though he was being attacked by a rabid dog. Unbelievable!
malaise
(269,048 posts)Something is wrong
the photographer could have been seriously injured!
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ellenrr
(3,864 posts)they have to follow constitutional protections in their work, but I guess I am hopelessly behind the times!
imanamerican63
(13,798 posts)but to be forceful is wrong. There a few bad apples that could do something that is harmful. I am wonder if Trump has his own secret service team mixed in with the others. Some of the ones I have seen, don't look like official secret service members. They look more like bullies than secret service?
Erose999
(5,624 posts)to shit. Reality TV show stars crashing state dinners, armed whackos jumping the gates and getting inside the White House, sleazy parties with underage prostitutes and drugs in countries like Columbia, etc etc etc.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)It was the host committee and local law enforcement.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)ellenrr
(3,864 posts)On Monday, though, the preemptive removal of about two dozen black college students from a crowd waiting for the candidate at Valdosta State University in Georgia raised an obvious question: Why, exactly, did a local police force apparently obey orders from the Trump campaign to help screen his audience by removing dissenters?
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In a letter responding to numerous complaints about the suppression of free speech on campus, Cecil P. Staton, the interim president of Valdosta State which did not admit black students until 1963 argued that the school had been powerless to prevent the incident since it took place at a private event in a hall rented to the Trump campaign.
While this is disturbing, it should be remembered that this was not a VSU-sponsored event, but a private function, Mr. Stanton wrote. The Trump campaign, together with the Secret Service and other law-enforcement officials, had responsibility for such decisions, not VSU.
The schools president added that current federal law (H.R. 347) does not allow for protesting of any type in an area under protection by the Secret Service.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/01/now-hes-guarded-secret-service-federal-law-criminalizes-protesting-trump/