Two women appeared to steal a seven-year-old boy’s MAGA hat and yell obscenities at him and his mother after tearing up signs supporting President Donald Trump.
In a video of the incident, the unidentified mother captures the two women accosting her and, allegedly, her son as they destroy their homemade signs and take the boy’s hat.
The video carries a “Students for Trump” label and was tweeted by Benny Johnson of Turning Point USA, who wrote in a Twitter post accompanying the footage that the incident occurred outside the Democratic National Convention, which is being held in Milwaukee, though most ‘attendees’ are appearing only virtually.
Johnson wrote that the boy “was attacked simply because he wore a @realDonaldTrump hat.”
“His name is Riley. Watch it happen. Listen to him cry. Will Joe condemn this violence against Children?” Johnson wrote.
“Yes, we are,” one of the accosting women responds as she and her companion tear up the signs.
After the women throw the torn up signs in the direction of the mother one of them proceeds to pick up a MAGA hat lying on a sidewalk and tosses it to the other.
As they both turn to leave, a young boy is seen running up to them.
“That’s somebody else’s hat,” he says to the accosting women. Some of their response is bleeped out, suggesting foul language.
“Get your hat back, baby,” the mother says. The boy can be heard crying in the background.
“Look at what you just did to my son,” said the mother. “Get your hat back baby! Get your hat back.”
“I just want…I just want,” the boy says through tears.
“We don’t give a f**k,” one of the accosting women yells back at him. “Your mom f**kin’ likes Trump.”
At that, the mother repeatedly demands the women give her back the...
