Bernie Sanders may have lost big on Super Tuesday, but at least his partisans got to cheer a seemingly peaceful supporter of President Donald Trump supporter getting tackled by security at a campus rally in Virginia on Saturday for reasons that are under dispute.
And the Sanders crowd appreciated it, too, judging by the cheering that can be heard in the video.
According to WAVY-TV, Markus Gohring attended the rally at Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach as a counter-protester.
“I’m not an aggressive person,” he told the TV station. “I wanted to tell the people that go there that I’m not with them.”
The Trump-Pence 2020 flag was a pretty good indicator that, no, he wasn’t feeling the Bern.
Campus security approached Gohring and told him he’d have to leave the private university’s campus.
“I didn’t know who he was, what his authority is and so I asked who authorizes you to [say] I have to go off-grounds,” Gohring told the station.
“We have a little discussion, but he was not approachable in any way.”
As Campus Reform noted, the Sanders campaign event was described as “open to the public.”
Gohring says that after the dialogue with the security guard, he decided to leave. Video shows him being followed by the guard, however.
“He approached me then from behind and the rest is [on] video,” Gohring said.
The video shows the guard grabbing Gohring’s flag and then physically dragging him to the ground.
“I saw he was pulling a weapon and that’s when I ran,” Gohring said.
“It was a matter of getting that Trump flag off of...
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I foresee a tuition-free education for Mr. Gohring, after the lawsuit gets settled.
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