Video: Trump protester sucker-punched at rally in North Carolina
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Subject: Video: Trump protester sucker-punched at rally in North Carolina Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:44 pm
A protester was being led out of a Donald Trump event Wednesday night when a man attending the rally sucker-punched the protester in the face, videos show.
The incident, captured from multiple angles, involved security leading the protester, a black man, out of Trump's Fayetteville, N.C. event when an apparently white man sporting a ponytail walked over and quickly punched the protester in the face as at least one member of security watched, recordings show.
John McGraw, 78, was charged Thursday with assault and battery and disorderly conduct for allegedly striking the protestor.
“The next time we see him, we might have to kill him,” McGraw later said in an interview.
The Washington Post interviewed the the protester, Rakeem Jones, who said the punch blindsided him.
“After I get it, before I could even gain my thoughts, I’m on the ground getting escorted out," Jones said, adding, "I was basically in police custody and got hit.”
Shortly after the punch, men in uniforms that read "Sheriff's Office" detained Jones on the ground. They did not detain the man who struck him.