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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:48 AM Mar 2016

At Trump rally, his supporters used a graveyard as a parking-lot

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/illinois-graveyard-torn-up-after-donald-trump-supporters-turn-it-into-rally-parking-lot/



At least a dozen gravestones were damaged when Donald Trump supporters attending a rally in Bloomington, Illinois used a nearby cemetery as a parking lot, WJBC-AM reported.

“There was trash everywhere, where they had driven over numerous stones,” said a local firefighter, John Meckley. “Fortunately, not all were damaged, but there were rows and rows and rows of headstones that were driven over.”
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At Trump rally, his supporters used a graveyard as a parking-lot (Original Post) DetlefK Mar 2016 OP
Real classless knuckle draggers, aren't they? TheCowsCameHome Mar 2016 #1
Trump is so "eager" to pay court costs, let him replace those headstones. Frustratedlady Mar 2016 #2
The dregs of Society PeoViejo Mar 2016 #3
Poltergeist 3? C_U_L8R Mar 2016 #4
Ohhhh--I like that! Bayard Mar 2016 #6
Trump: Dead people are losers! lunasun Mar 2016 #5
meow2u3: Trump is a loser meow2u3 Mar 2016 #8
Do any Bloomington IL Dems have first-hand knowledge about rally or parking? ruralsteve Mar 2016 #7

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
2. Trump is so "eager" to pay court costs, let him replace those headstones.
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:55 AM
Mar 2016

May those who have gone before return to haunt their every dream. Idiots!

Bayard

(22,005 posts)
6. Ohhhh--I like that!
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 09:39 AM
Mar 2016

But this is beyond disgusting. And illegal. Why weren't cops out there making arrests for desecrating graves?

ruralsteve

(20 posts)
7. Do any Bloomington IL Dems have first-hand knowledge about rally or parking?
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 12:45 PM
Mar 2016

I live about 1 1/2 hours drive West of Bloomington, and started hearing reports of this on regional radio and TV stations yesterday (the day after the incident). Some of the reports I have looked into online -- perhaps in the interest of objectivity -- claim not to know for certain whether the vehicles parking on and tearing up the cemetery were those of Trump supporters or anti-Trump protesters.

I have not heard of a large protest being held at that Trump rally, so it sounds like to me that far more cars drove through and parked in that cemetery than protesters could have accounted for. But somebody must know for certain. Did anybody take cellphone pix of cars parked there? Perhaps they are Twitter of Facebook, which I can no longer get to with my slow connection.

I really think those who committed these desecrations should be hunted down -- whoever they are -- and brought up on charges. And if they are Trump supporters, I want to see them say on national TV that respect for graves is too "politically correct" if you are serious about "making America great" The Donald Way.

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