Riot police respond to the scene of violent protests at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in New Mexico. (Credit: ABC)
Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, turned violent in its aftermath, with hundreds of protesters described by one CNN on-scene correspondent as mostly Hispanic turning up the heat and tossing rocks, bottles and whatever else they could find at police at a time when they were supposed to be dispersing and heading home.
Dan Simon, with CNN, described the scene at the tail end of Trump’s rally as “pretty tense” with potential to “become even uglier,” he said.
Simon was outside the venue where Trump had spoken, and said the crowd, mostly Latino, became more and more agitated as they discussed the billionaire businessman’s immigration statements.
“You have some of the protesters who are wearing vests, who are trying to calm the crowd down, but things have definitely escalated,” Simon said, to news studio host Wolf Blitzer.
He also said the crowd that gathered in the hours before Trump was due on stage was mostly peaceful, but “things just quickly turned into chaos,” he said.
Simon described the scene: “Things have gotten very chaotic outside. You can see this group of protesters right here, basically in a confrontation with police. You’ve had several protesters throw both rocks and bottles at police. At this time, police have basically shown a lot of restraint given the situation that is happening. You have some of the protesters who are wearing vests, who are trying to calm the crowd down, but things have definitely escalated. The Trump rally, of course, has ended. Most of the people inside have left, but you still have hundreds of people outside who look like they’re causing or trying to cause some problems out here, but you can see that police now are trying to get people to move away from the building.”
And then this, CNN reported: “You can see that there’s some kind of an explosive device right in front of us,” Simon said.
Simon also reported a group of people waving the Mexican flag while driving through the crowd, and that immigration seemed to be the hot topic of the evening.
“They’re talking about Trump’s immigration proposals, talking about his comments about women,” Simon said. “You know, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics in the country so, not surprisingly, immigration is at the top of their minds. And you have a lot of Latino individuals here at the rally. And again, they’ve been peaceful most of the day. But, you know, as we’ve been live on the air with you, Wolf, things just quickly turned into chaos.”
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