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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) - Police say they arrested five people at Donald Trump's rally Monday night in Asheville, and as of publishing have warrants out for two more people.

Police plan to arrest Richard Campbell of Edisto Island, South Carolina for assault on a female.

That female is 69-year-old Shirley Teter.


She has protested her whole life, she said. Now, she adds Trump's campaign to the list of things she's protested against.

"Why did I get involved yesterday, at my age? Because I ran into another situation that was sickening my heart," she said Tuesday afternoon, outside Cafe 64 in downtown Asheville.

Protesters met Trump supporters before the rally, and Teter was having fun.

"Whenever groups of them would start chanting 'Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!' I would chant back, 'Dump! Dump! Dump! Dump!' It was kind of comical," Teter said.

After the rally, Teter experienced something she had never seen in all of her protests. Peace teetered over into something else.

"I said, 'You better learn to speak Russian,' and I said, 'The first two words are going to be ha ha.' He stopped in his tracks, and he turned around and just cold-cocked me," Teter said.

She was punched in the face.

She says she fell on her oxygen tank and has sore ribs, a sore jaw, and cut her elbow. She later went to the hospital and is thankful she did not break any bones.

Police said they didn't make an arrest because officers didn't witness the punch.

Teter thanked the police for giving her a ride home. She said they were wonderful. 

Many people expressed concerns for Teter on social media, and to those folks she says, "Thank you."

After our interview, Teter called News 13. She wanted to add one more thing, a question.

She asks if people find a Trump supporter punching her in the face deplorable.


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Deplorable is all I can say...
 
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I dont recall violence like this repeated problem in generic campaign rallies in the past, now notice I said generic campaign rallies and my past..not something that happened before I was an adult.

 
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Some political commentators have drawn comparisons between the atmosphere at Trumps rallies and the 1968 Democratic convention..

But, to me Trump's rallies are mild in comparison,,, they cannot compare with the bloody 1968 Democratic Party convention, the riot ..and the trail of the Chicago Eight..at that convention even journalist like Mike Wallace got roughed up ......... even Dan Rather who was punched in the stomach and knocked down ..now that's a protest.

Ol' Shirley Teter should consider herself lucky, that she only got
punched in the face for taunting and provoking people ..she was looking for trouble with her comments to others ..
 
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Quote Originally Posted by mattbrot:

Deplorable is all I can say...

The thing is that you now have a whole group of emotional uneducated trump supporters proudly calling themselves deplorable sand trying to redefine and spin it.  So I'm thinking there are actual trump supporters that would have done the exact same thing or try to minimize this incident of violence against an elderly woman exercising her first amendment right. 

Really sad state of affairs to think that trump supporters would try to spin this and minimize this,  but I think we are really getting to know how these emotional trump supporters think... Or don't. 

What I fear with trump's culture of violence is that if he were to become president his supporters would feel empowered and justified to violently attack anyone exercising their right to protest.  To hell with the constitution, it would become North Korea where any disagreement with the leader and anyone who doesn't blindly follow or is not obsessively trying to spin reality as though any thought against the leader is wrong and should be met with violence. 

Perhaps trump supporters would advocate that of both people were armed that would decrease the violence.  That way rather than punching the elderly woman, he simply could have claimed he felt threatened like zimmerman and blew her away.   Or the elderly woman could have shot the man before or after he chose to violently assault her rather than letting him get away.  Problem is that I doubt the elderly woman would have believed in packing and the violent trump supporter would have just blew her away in cold blood saying it is his constitutional right as he robbed her of her constitutional right to have an opinion.   


 
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Quote Originally Posted by SarasotaSlim:

Some political commentators have drawn comparisons between the atmosphere at Trumps rallies and the 1968 Democratic convention..

But, to me Trump's rallies are mild in comparison,,, they cannot compare with the bloody 1968 Democratic Party convention, the riot ..and the trail of the Chicago Eight..at that convention even journalist like Mike Wallace got roughed up ......... even Dan Rather who was punched in the stomach and knocked down ..now that's a protest.

Ol' Shirley Teter should consider herself lucky, that she only got
punched in the face for taunting and provoking people ..she was looking for trouble with her comments to others ..

You're trying to spin it 

what trouble was she looking for ? 

She is a 69 year old American Citizen. She has the right to protest 

"Whenever groups of them would start chanting 'Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!' I would chant back, 'Dump! Dump! Dump! Dump!' It was kind of comical," Teter said.

"I said, 'You better learn to speak Russian,' and I said, 'The first two words are going to be ha ha.' He stopped in his tracks, and he turned around and just cold-cocked me," Teter said.


 
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will Donald Trump pay  legal fees for Richard Campbell ?
 
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Quote Originally Posted by mattbrot:

Deplorable is all I can say...

 
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Donald Trump has backed off from his pledge to pay the legal fees of supporters who attack protesters at his rallies—a reversal that has come after a Trump supporter sucker-punched a protester in the face at a rally in North Carolina last week.


"I don't condone violence," Trump told Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday. "I didn't say I would pay for his fees."


"So you're not going to?" Stephanopoulos asked, pressing the Republican front-runner on how he could reconcile paying for such legal fees with his own claim of being a peaceful person.


"Nobody has asked for fees and I haven't even seen it so I never said I was going to pay for fees," Trump said.


These statements come amid intense condemnation over the escalating violence at several chaotic Trump rallies last week.


But the real estate magnate seems to have forgotten the times he has publicly vowed to cover the legal fees his supporters might incur when roughing up protesters.


"So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him, would you?" he told a crowd in Iowa in February. "Seriously, okay, just knock the hell. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees; I promise, I promise."


As recently as this past Sunday, Trump appeared to stand by his previous statements, telling Meet the Press he had directed his staff to see about covering the legal expenses for the man who attacked a protester at the rally in North Carolina. That, however, no longer appears to be the case.


"I'm going to make a decision," he said on Tuesday. "But I certainly don't condone violence and maybe you're right and maybe that's why I wouldn't do it."

 
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"So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him, would you?" he told a crowd in Iowa in February. "Seriously, okay, just knock the hell. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees; I promise, I promise."

Donald Trump said ...If someone is getting ready to throw a tomato knock the crap out of him...and I will pay the legal fees..

So if a protester was getting ready to get violent by throwing something at him... ..he want's somebody in the crowd, that see's this, to stop them and give them what for...and he would pay the legal fees for them protecting him from an attack by a projectile ...

Trump did not say he condoned what the guy did because the protester was not getting ready to throw a tomato..Trump  didn't say he would pay the fees for some guy sucker punching a protester..
 
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This was an interesting article written on this topic.  I think this occurred after the tomatoes incident but well before this act of emotional trump supporter violence.   I believe they reference a previous instance of an emotional trump supporter violently assaulting an unprepared and defenseless victim with a sucker punch. 

I hope that this adds information to the conversation of this trump culture of violence we are seeing with these emotional trump supporters

https://newsexaminer.net/crime/donald-trump-will-pay-legal-fees-supporters-assault-protesters/


Donald Trump has broken all kinds of norms during his presidential campaign, but today he just went to a whole new level when he announced on Fox News that he will pay any legal fees occurred by his supporters who get into altercations with protesters.

“I know there has been talk of me paying the legal fees of those accused of assaulting protesters at my events and after thinking long and hard about this matter, I’ve decided I want to go ahead and do that,” Trump said. “My followers are passionate about making this country great again and I need to support them in any way that I can. If my followers are arrested, just for being patriotic, loyal, God-fearing Americans, then I will pay their legal fees,” Trump continued. “I know it could get costly, but it’s time to take a stand against those who cannot conform to a basic set of rules, a system. And these protesters, who still live at home with their mommy and daddy, they hate America, and they hate freedom and they deserve what they get.”

Today is the first time Trump has made it official that he will indeed pay the legal fees incurred by his followers in the event of an arrest, but not the first time he has talked about the subject. In February, Trump told a crowd to ‘knock the crap out’ of protesters and that ‘I will pay for the legal fees’. Then just days after canceling a rally in Chicago due to violence, Trump said he might pay the legal fees of John McGraw, 78, who sucker-punched a protester at a rally in North Carolina.


 
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Don't you just hate when FACTS get in the way of the narrative being regurgitated?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/06/20/donald-trump-rallies-violence-protests-left-wing-column/85485604/

Uneducated, emotional, deplorable, lemmings attacking Trump supporters and it happens regularly, but some people turn a blind eye to that because .... well because they're ok with it. "They are Trump supporters, so they have it coming"

If one would simply open ones eyes they would see the truth ...


I would opine that more Trump supporters have been physically attacked than Clinton supporters have, and it's not even close. But why should I disrupt the cute little Trump-bashing party going on here with reality. A few of you seem to really be enjoying yourselves.

Party on, boys! 


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No you got it all wrong.  This is about trump bashing.  I get you might feel that way emotionally but the actual topic that everyone is talking about is trump supporters. 

I don't get this weird knee jerk reaction to say that it is the other way around when the topic of the thread was what happened in this situation and the talk of trump saying he was going to pay the lawyer's fee and the timing of it and context with the tomatoes statement and else where. 

I would like to know your opinion of the actual topic of  incident that occurred.  And spare us the weird tagent about political correctness, the biased media or double standards that you usually regress to.  

I am actually intersted in your opinion of the incident that occurred. 

Would you have done the same?

Do you like other psycho, violent domestic violence abuser types believe that the victim is to blame for the physical assault? 

Like That woman had it coming to her or was to blame for a male making the choice to physical assault an elderly woman.  And Let's keep it simple with a yes or no answer on these two questions.   I know how slippery things seem to get when the civil dialog begins. 

Looking forward to your answering to questions about the  actual incident.  Hoping it is a good disucssion on what happened that day 

 
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Sorry I meant to say this isn't about trump bashing. I get that you feel that way emotionally but the actual topic everyone is talking about pertains to trump supporters not necessarily trump. 
 
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DL, your ability to read something and draw false conclusions is astounding, but I will let that go for now.

Recently you have taken a position in this forum as if you are a trial attorney. You ask question after question, repeating them ad nauseam. The problem is your questions are not only redundant, they are oft times irrelevant. But I digress.

You have decided the thread topic is about the lady getting punched in the face, which would be accurate.
I have decided that the thread topic is about political violence, which would also be accurate.
Can you understand this?

You discuss what you want, and I will do the same.

Getting back to your incessant asking of questions ... here they are ...

"Would you have done the same?"
"Do you like other psycho, violent domestic violence abuser types believe that the victim is to blame for the physical assault?"

I won't comment on your questions. If you require a reason as to why, you are in need of more help than I am capable of providing 
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Quote Originally Posted by wallstreetcappers:

I dont recall violence like this repeated problem in generic campaign rallies in the past, now notice I said generic campaign rallies and my past..not something that happened before I was an adult.


You are seeing what you are being told to see.  I understand though, the democrats are very good at what they do. The best actually. You are not alone.

Hang in there, and know that it won't be nearly as bad as you think it will be if he does pull the upset...
 
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Quote Originally Posted by TILTOLOGIC:


You are seeing what you are being told to see.  I understand though, the democrats are very good at what they do. The best actually. You are not alone.

Hang in there, and know that it won't be nearly as bad as you think it will be if he does pull the upset...

So how did you draw this response based on what I said?

I said I do not recall this repeated violent incidents at generic campaign gatherings in my lifetime..

Please feel free to tell me how you took those simple words and threw up that response and claim you are not heavily (and inaccurately) biased...

Thank you..
 
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Quote Originally Posted by wallstreetcappers:

I dont recall violence like this repeated problem in generic campaign rallies in the past, now notice I said generic campaign rallies and my past..not something that happened before I was an adult.


Donald Trump has been gaining ground on the polls regardless of these violent incidents by his supporters. This country is turning divisive and worrisome, WSC. 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Hugh_Jorgan:

DL, your ability to read something and draw false conclusions is astounding, but I will let that go for now.

Recently you have taken a position in this forum as if you are a trial attorney. You ask question after question, repeating them ad nauseam. The problem is your questions are not only redundant, they are oft times irrelevant. But I digress.

You have decided the thread topic is about the lady getting punched in the face, which would be accurate.
I have decided that the thread topic is about political violence, which would also be accurate.
Can you understand this?

You discuss what you want, and I will do the same.

Getting back to your incessant asking of questions ... here they are ...

"Would you have done the same?"
"Do you like other psycho, violent domestic violence abuser types believe that the victim is to blame for the physical assault?"

I won't comment on your questions. If you require a reason as to why, you are in need of more help than I am capable of providing 

Cool story bro.  You can spare us the drama here.  All I did was ask you two really simple questions about the topic. Even framed them as yes or no to make it easy for you.

I don't get why engaging in a civil discussion about the topic is such an issue for so people.  

Let's try this again shall we?  and once again spare us your drama and games,  just answer the questions and join my invitation to join me in a civil dialog about the topic. 

No need to cut-and-run.   Just answer yes or no to start win.  I know you can do it if you try. I do not believe that a civil discussion about h actual events is out of your league. 

Looking forward to hearing your responses friend

 
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The country is not divisive and it is not violent because the 69 year old woman was cold cocked. She 'probably' was paid by Soros to make this incident happen. I hope she recovers.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Europa:


Donald Trump has been gaining ground on the polls regardless of these violent incidents by his supporters. This country is turning divisive and worrisome, WSC. 

I agree...

And I think that a certain segment that are inclined to enjoy this kind of action sees these rallies as opportunity to voice their aggressive voices and take out their anger on others.

I dont care if it is dem or repub or indy or whatever, to me it is a sad, disturbing way of behaving and I dont think some of the replies in this thread are straying far from that mindset.
 
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What I fear with the Obama's and Hillary's culture of violence is that - if Hillary was to become president - is that her supporters would feel empowered and justified to violently attack anyone in a police uniform.

Officers are being killed and targeted at high levels already because of democrats. Imagine a Hillary presidency. Law enforcement will be under full scale attack. 

Another thing I fear with the Obama's and Hillary's culture of violence is that - if Hillary was to become president - is that her supporters would feel empowered and justified to violently attack republicans - more than they already have.

The violent democrat mob attacks on republicans are sickening. I have personally been attacked. I fear what a Hillary presidency will bring. Democrat zombies are everywhere.
 
 
 
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lets discuss this 

White Girl attacked by Mexicans at Trump rally in SJ , CA 

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