CBS reporter arrested at Trump rally: 'I've never seen anything like what I'm witnessing' David Rhodes tweeted that journalist Sopan Deb, who was covering the rally at the University of Illinois' Chicago campus on Friday, was handcuffed and charged with resisting arrest. "On tape you see he did not resist, identified himself as working press," Rhodes said in his tweet. CBS News also aired footage of the rally and of Deb's arrest, which he managed to capture on tape. In the accompanying article, Deb said police abruptly threw him to the ground and handcuffed him. Deb was charged with resisting arrest, "although there is no sign of that on the video," according to CBS. Deb is Indian. He has never been to the Middle East (or India for that matter). And yet, he has repeatedly been singled out at events. At a rally in December, he tweeted, "A man came up to me to say 'Go back to Iraq!' I've never been!" And in January, he tweeted, "A Trump supporter just asked me at Reno event if I was taking pictures for ISIS. When I looked shocked, he said, 'yeah, I'm talking to you.'" Deb is the latest reporter to be involved in incidents at Trump events. Chris Morris, a photographer on assignment for Time magazine, said a Secret Service agent choked him and slammed him to the ground last week. Earlier this week Michelle Fields, a reporter for Breitbart, alleged that she was grabbed and bruised by someone, possibly Trump's campaign manager, at a press conference. Several journalism advocacy organizations have expressed concern about the situation. Additionally, clashes between Trump supporters and protesters have led to multiple arrests and injuries at events. A man attending a Trump rally this week was charged with assault after he allegedly sucker-punched a black protester being led out of a Trump event. -- CNN's Jeremy Diamond and Theodore Schleifer contributed to this report. http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/1...
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Trump supporters are quick to turn on protesters, especially those who don’t look like them. They point and holler. Sometimes they spit and kick and shove. A young black woman in Kentucky was pushed and called names, her sign ripped from her hands. A black man in North Carolina wassucker-punched by a 78-year-old white man, who later looked into a camera and warned that next time, “We might have to kill him.” To witness the crowd turn on the protesters in its midst is to watch a feverish body, bucking and writhing as it tries to eject an invading virus. I have talked to protesters who still don’t quite have the words to describe what they felt when they were singled out and turned upon, often by their communities. Griselda Cardena Segovia, 20, a college sophomore, was part of a small group of young people who were removed from a Trump event on Monday in Concord, N.C., before it began, after they linked arms in silent protest. She said she and her younger sister had come to peacefully observe the rally and support their parents, immigrants from Mexico whom they felt Mr. Trump was disparaging. But as soon as they entered, the crowd “looked at us wrong and you could feel the energy, that we weren’t wanted,” she said, adding that they found the scene — which included some of their high school teachers — to be jarring. “We have never in our whole life, living here in Concord, we have never experienced racism until now,” Ms. Segovia said. “I never thought my town, that we contributed to, would treat us like this.” After the rally, Ms. Segovia’s group stood on the grassy curb, holding signs. It was unseasonably warm for March — the sort of day when you might sneak out of work for a long lunch outside — and as cars exited, dozens rolled down their windows to shout obscenities and slurs at the young men and women. “Go back to Mexico,” someone hollered from an S.U.V. as it peeled away. As a reporter, I always try to anticipate where the story is headed, so I can get there first, or at least right alongside the news. And I quickly began jotting down notes on scenes of violence and near-violence, and gathering voices of angry, frustrated Trump supporters. Sometime soon, I warned my editors, someone is going to be seriously wounded — or worse — at a Trump rally, and we’ll want to have a story ready. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03...
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