Trump backers, critics clash, fire pepper spray outside Anaheim City Hall

[Eugene]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clashed outside Anaheim City Hall on Tuesday as the City Council considers a resolution denouncing the GOP presidential candidate.

According to witnesses, both sides were screaming obscenities at each other before protesters on each side fired pepper spray at each other. An ambulance was called to provide care for two young girls as well as a woman who were hit by pepper spray.

Linda Reedy, a Laguna Niguel resident and member of We the People Rising, a group of Trump supporters, said anti-Trump protesters "goaded" her and her friends. When an unidentified man attacked a friend, Reedy said she tried to pull the stranger off and pepper spray stung her eyes.

"I just think they're so out of control," Reedy said, later pulling out a wt cloth to wipe her eyes. "I'm so sick of the anger in this country," she said.

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trump-backers-criticism-clash-fire-pepper-stray-outside-anaheim-city-hall-20160426-story.html

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By Anh Do and Matt Hamilton
APRIL 26, 2016, 5:27 PM

[Feeling the Bern]

1. Reedy is sick of the anger in this country? Does she listen to the asshole she supports?

[Eugene]

2. Man pepper sprays girls, aged 8 and 11, at Trump demonstration in California

Source: Associated Press

Man pepper sprays girls, aged 8 and 11, at Trump demonstration in California

Associated Press
Wednesday 27 April 2016 03.21 BST

Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump have clashed in Anaheim, and police say five people – including two young girls – were pepper sprayed by a demonstrator during the heated confrontation.

No serious injuries and no arrests were reported in the clash Tuesday afternoon as about 50 people confronted each other outside city hall, before the city council was to discuss a proposed resolution to condemn what it calls Trump’s divisive rhetoric.

One man unleashed pepper spray into the pro-Trump crowd.

Police sergeant Daron Wyatt says five people, including an 11-year-old girl and an 8-year-old girl, were exposed to the eye-stinging spray. Three were treated at the scene by paramedics.

Wyatt said the man fled and police were looking for him.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/26/trump-protest-clash-pepper-spray-girls-anaheim-demonstration

[Crowman1979]

3. I swear the RNC is going to turn into Woodstock 99'.

Mark my words.

[mrmpa]

4. or their convention could be ...........

a repeat of Chicago '68

[Crowman1979]

6. Nope, it's going to be worse than that!

Because the RW-thug audience will be armed and more violent than the police.

[Sunlei]

5. woodstock was not violent.

[Crowman1979]

7. You must be talking about some other Woodstock.

The first one and Woodstock 94' were freakin' awesome and free of violence.

But Woodstock 99' (or at least not until the metal music started) on the other hand...

[Sunlei]

9. sorry, I thoght there was only one Woodstock

[bigworld]

8. I do agree that the city should not be condemning (or supporting) Presidential candidates

That's not for the city to decide.