A black man was seconds away from being lynched at a Donald Trump event Sunday night in Florida. Andre Thompson, a 20-year-old psychology major, was at the event to observe the Trump rally and experience what it is all about. “I thought it was worth going to because it was near my house and it would be a good story to tell. I had no idea I would almost be lynched at a political rally in 2016.”
Thompson wasn’t there to protest or disturb the Trump event, but all of a sudden, members of the crowd threw a noose around the young man’s neck and tackled him to the ground. The rope was then thrown over a rafter beam. With the crowd cheering, people began to pull on the rope, but fortunately, it broke. “I think I was lifted two feet and then fell back down, thank God. Then I ran like Hell. It was the fastest I’ve ever ran” said Thompson.
Being a track and field champion in high school and currently in college, he had no trouble outrunning the overweight crowd, it was just a matter of getting through them. “I tried to run near families with kids because I figured they would be less likely to try to lynch me. It was a blur until I got to the exit,” said Thompson. “I then was able to slow down and was only verbally attacked until I got to my car and drove to my friend’s house to tell him the madness that just happened to me.”
“I was scared to death, literally,” said Thompson. “It started off fine. If I felt like I was in danger, I would have left sooner, but it wasn’t until Trump began to talk that the crowd’s attitude changed. Before that, I even had someone take a picture of me.”
Only 10 minutes earlier did a crowd member take Thompson’s picture to post on social media as he did with Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Bernie Sanders.
“It was crazy, just a few minutes into Trump’s speech and you could see people get angrier and angrier. They just got riled up so much; I’ve never seen anything like it. You could see the evil in their eyes and movements. It was the opposite of the Clinton rally I went to a few weeks ago.”
Thompson has gone to all the presidential candidates rallies in his area to be informed before he votes, but Trump’s event is the only one where people tried to kill him.
“For some reason, someone brought a rope. I don’t know why. Maybe it was a prop or something. But it was either tied in a noose before they came or they saw me and tied it. I do know I was lucky I wasn’t stabbed by a knife.”
“They wanted to hang me for no other reason than because I’m black. I was standing there minding my own business while Mr. Trump talked.”
“I don’t think I’ll be voting for him.”
Trump’s Excuses
Trump said he didn’t the see the incident because he wasn’t wearing his glasses and the light were “very, very bright. I like the light bright like that, so no, I didn’t see what happened.”
Trump’s speech continued for another 30 minutes. “Who knows, maybe the guy deserved it,” said Trump. “Was he a child molester? I don’t know. All I’m saying is maybe the guy was bad, it just happened that he was black. My supporters aren’t racists, believe me.
“You’re racist for even asking me that.”
Not A Virgin
This is not the first time of reports of minorities being mistreated at Trump rallies. Fights usually don’t break out at political rallies, but Trump rallies are rewriting all the rules.
“Racism at Trump’s rallies have been systematic,” said Yahoo News contributor Susan Flanders. “It doesn’t seem to matter if you are a protester or even another Trump supporter, if you aren’t white, many supporters don’t want you there.”
“They can barely tolerate the women there. I can understand that because many of them having been creeping out women for decades and hold a grudge against them.”
