Dozens of black college students in Georgia said they were asked to leave a Donald Trump rally on their campus Monday for standing silently on gymnasium bleachers before the business magnate began speaking. Valdosta State University students said Secret Service agents were told by Trump to remove them, according to Jennifer Jacobs, a Des Moines Register reporter who was at the event. Representatives for Trump and the Secret Service didn't immediately respond to inquiries.
The black Valdosta U students tell me they were standing silently in the bleachers when Secret Service told them Trump wanted them removed.
The incident happened the same day Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted a Trump speech during a campaign stop in Virginia. At that rally, a Time magazine photographer was thrown to the ground in a chokehold by a Secret Service agent after stepping outside of the press pool. Trump has drawn widespread condemnation in recent days after being slow to distance himself from white supremacists supporting him, namely KKK leader David Duke. A video tweeted by a Valdosta student appears to show Snapchat footage of the group as they were ejected.
VSU TRUMP RALLY #BlackLivesMatter And this is the school we attend...
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