BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A white manpunched and attempted to choke a black protester who was thrown on the ground at a Donald Trump rally here on Saturday morning, as an onlooker yelled, "Don't choke him! Don't choke him!"
In an interview on Sunday morning on "Fox and Friends," Trump said, "Maybe [the man] should have been roughed up."
I had 10,000 people in the room yesterday, 10,000 people, and this guy started screaming by himself and they — I don't know, rough up, he should have been — maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing," Trump said, according to a transcript of the interview.
The protester, identified by local media as well-known activist Mercutio Southall Jr., started shouting during Trump's speech and could be heard yelling, "Black lives matter!" A fight broke out around him, prompting Trump to briefly halt the rally and demand the removal of Southall.
I had 10,000 people in the room yesterday, 10,000 people, and this guy started screaming by himself and they — I don't know, rough up, he should have been — maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing," Trump said, according to a transcript of the interview.
The fact that this man has even the slightest chance of becoming president.
What a disgrace. I liked Trump but he's a huge idiot
Minorities need to band together and teach the GOP a lesson they will never forget come 2016
First hispanics, then Muslims, then blacks. No.
