320 Years of History
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Do we agree:
1 the old man should not of hit him
2 the black man was out of line himself but was no threat as he was being escorted out
3 Trump encouraged violence. I thought I even read after the fact Trump or his team offered to pay the old man's legal fees.
Yes, I agree, except for the bold bits...The reason for the exception: I don't know whether the man was "out of line" in his own right or was "out of line" by being among the group of others who were "out of line."
I know Mr. Jones was with three other people who were protesting. I don't know the nature of their protest. Were they, including Mr. Jones, merely there with anti-Trump signs? Were they, including Mr. Jones, shouting to drown out the person who was speaking? I don't know the answers to those and similar questions; Mr. Jones' specific role is unclear to me.
What I do know is that my assessment of the matter would be no different were, as the thread title asks, "the tables turned." While I don't at all have an issue with folks appearing at a political event benefitting a candidate with whom they disagree and quietly but noticeably protesting, I do have a problem with them taking their protest to the level of being disruptive, that is, denying scheduled/intended speakers at the event their right of expression. It's not that I see the protest as being "out of line;" it's that I see disruptive protest as being "out of line."