Yesterday Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump appeared at a rally in Janesville, and right on cue his supporters got violent with counter-protesters, with a 15-year-old young woman being sprayed with pepper spray by a Trump supporter after she confronted a man who allegedly groped her sexually.
Police in Janesville, Wisconsin are searching for two men who attended Donald Trump’s raucous town hall Tuesday night in the small post-industrial town: one accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl who was protesting Trump, and another man who pepper sprayed the 15-year-old and a 19-year-old woman. Both women were taken to local hospitals.
According to the police report, a male in the crowd groped the 15-year-old girl. When she pushed him away, another person in the crowd sprayed her.
In a video of the protest, the young woman holds up a sign reading, “Damn, Donald, back at it again with the white supremacy.” An angry crowd of older Trump supporters surrounds her, screaming, “All lives matter.”
In another video, the young woman’s friends are holding her back as she angrily confronts the man she claims groped her. She hits him, and instantly recoils from having her eyes hit with pepper spray at point-blank range. Police told local reporters that the young woman could also face charges for hitting the man.
Here’s video of the incident from two different perspectives.
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EXCLUSIVE vid shows teen get pepper sprayed after shoving protester, called a bitch & "n****r lover" at Trump rally pic.twitter.com/kB4GqQbbaG
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After the incident the Janesville Police Department announced it is seeking the man suspected of pepper spraying the 15-year-old girl.
Janesville police have asked for public help to identify a man suspected of pepper-spraying a protester outside Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s Tuesday campaign rally.
Police released two photos Wednesday of a young man wearing glasses and a hat featuring the candidate’s signature “Make America Great Again” slogan. Janesville police detective Chris Buescher said the man is suspected of using pepper spray on a 15-year-old girl after she punched another man during an argument.
The altercation was one of a few tense moments between the estimated 2,000 supporters and opponents of Trump who were attending the rally at the Janesville Conference Center at the Holiday Inn Express.
Here’s a photo of the man Janesville Police are looking for.
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