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Trump supporter charged for spitting, coughing on Black Lives Matter protester
A police officer witnessed Scott Marberblatt spitting on Marcus Johnson, who self-quarantined and took a COVID-19 test.
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A Trump supporter in Massachusetts who spit and coughed on a Black man in December has been charged with assault and battery.
Marcus Johnson was counter-protesting at a pro-President
Donald Trump rally in Swampscott, carrying a sign that read “Black Lives Matter,” when a man approached him wearing a Trump 2020 hat, yelling, “All lives matter!”
Trump supporter Scott Marberblatt, who was seen spitting and coughing on a Black counter-protester in December, has been charged with assault and battery.
The U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts issued a statement calling the unrest in Washington, D.C. "criminal," saying "anyone who traveled from Massachusetts with the intent to commit such crimes will be prosecuted in the District of Massachusetts.”
“Something had to be done,” Marilyn Bittner, a “house flipper” in Maine, told
New York magazine.
“They’re not listening to us in the courts or in the Legislature, so it’s reached a point where people are going to break in,” Bittner said, though it was unclear in the report whether she was among the crowds that entered the building.
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Outside the halls of Congress, Trump supporters were met with tear gas from law enforcement. Part of the standoff was caught on video by Dianna Ploss, a loyal supporter of the president who founded the Massachusetts 4 Trump organization in 2016.
In Swampscott, activist s arrest gets push-back from community
Public demands an investigation into what happened
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Concerned citizens angered over the arrest of a Black civil rights activist at a recent Trump rally in Swampscott met with the town’s police chief, Ronald Madigan, on Friday Dec. 18, demanding an investigation into what led to the arrest.
“We’re astonished that the police took these actions, which seem clearly racially driven,” said Swampscott resident Stephanie Tucker. “In all of the videos we’ve seen, it is not at all apparent that the gentleman punched anyone.”