Scuffle breaks out between Alex Jones, RNC protesters in Cleveland (VIDEOS)
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been escorted away from a protest in Cleveland, Ohio after he crashed the Stand Together Against Trump parade, which he called a “commi rally.”
International Workers of the World activists chanted, “Off our streets, Nazi scum,” before the tussle broke out.
Police swarm in to escort @RealAlexJones from the park. Not sure what happened. #RNCinCLEpic.twitter.com/pht8rhRY1k
— Nebojsa Malic (@NebojsaMalic) July 19, 2016
LIVE on #Periscope: Infowars crashes commi protest https://t.co/mYUrHKwK41
— infowars (@infowars) July 19, 2016
The InfoWars group crashed a rally of the Industrial Workers of the World, better known as the Wobblies.
The International Workers of the Wotld #IWW explains how Alex Jones attacked their group#RNCinCLE#Breakingpic.twitter.com/Q8fUCUlHeV
— Harris from the Post (@rousseau_ist) July 19, 2016
Jones and the protesters then fought before law enforcement intervened. Both sides blamed each other for starting the fracas.
LIVE on #Periscope: Alex Jones talks about Communists Attacking Him https://t.co/xgVBIbz6Q9
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) July 19, 2016
State police rushed Jones away from the crowd of protesters and into an unmarked vehicle, the Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum tweeted.
Alex Jones rushed by state police into an unmarked vehicle, whisked away from a crowd of protesters pic.twitter.com/pNPxodxM0o
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) July 19, 2016
Scuffles also appear to have broken out between the Ku Klux Klan, Westboro Baptist Church, the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups, according to the police scanner. Cleveland police requested an additional 100 troopers to Public Square.
Tensions begin to run high in Public Square as protesters clash about #BlackLivesMatter#Trump and #LGBTQ#RNCinCLEpic.twitter.com/YWc5XT9pQu
— Linsey Davis (@LinseyDavis) July 19, 2016
Crowd chants, "Cops and Klan go hand in hand." #RNCinCLEpic.twitter.com/lhJmO3R4pC
— James Bigley (@jc_bigz) July 19, 2016
“Be advised, they’re throwing urine,” an officer said on the scanner. Protesters have also loaded squirt guns with urine.
My view #RNCinCLEpic.twitter.com/cl4j2IqzAW
— Terminal Tower CLE (@TowerLightsCLE) July 19, 2016
LIVE on #Periscope: Scuffle on Cleveland square outside #RNCinCLEhttps://t.co/nVhm7MumIf
— RT America (@RT_America) July 19, 2016
LIVE on #Periscope: Live: protest outside #RNCinCLEhttps://t.co/zNg8UCWvE1
— Nebojsa Malic (@NebojsaMalic) July 19, 2016