Five Deputies Disciplined in Connection with Trump Rally Assault (Video of Second Assault)

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Source: Fayetteville Observer

Five Cumberland County deputies disciplined in connection with Trump rally assault

By Michael Futch, Staff writer Updated 9 hrs ago

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office says it has disciplined five deputies following an investigation arising from a videotaped assault at the March 9 Donald Trump presidential rally at the Crown Coliseum.

News of the disciplinary action came on the same day as allegations of a second assault during the rally surfaced with a second video posted on social media.

A college student from Fayetteville posted the video online that shows him being verbally and possibly physically assaulted while sheriff's deputies are escorting him from the political rally.

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Adedayo Adeniyi, 20, a Nigerian who attends East Carolina University in Greenville, has said in interviews with The New York Daily News and the East Carolinian college newspaper that a Trump rally-goer slapped him in the face as authorities led him out of the Crown Coliseum, where the rally was held.

Adeniyi said in the published accounts that he was not protesting when deputies told him he had to go. Adeniyi alleges that deputies randomly targeted and tossed him from the event because he's black.

A Sheriff's Office news release said Wednesday that three deputies were demoted in rank and suspended for five days each without pay "for unsatisfactory performance and for failing to discharge the duties and policies of the Office of Sheriff."

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1. I would be filing a lawsuit against the campaign and security staff

It that happened to me, I would lawyer up and file lawsuits against the security staff, and the campaign, for the assault and denying me my constitutional rights to assemble, this is a democracy for all isn't it?

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2. It's about time!

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3. Good

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4. if not for the public's ability to video these asshats I can only imagine

what would be going on, cuz anyone that thinks the majority of police officers across the country aren't solidly in agreement with the batshit crazed Trumpites are fooling themselves

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5. Good ...

The deputies could not have missed Adeniyl being stuck and yet there cuff up the victim rather than the guy that struck him.

But I fear the lesson the officers will learn is "it's the Black guys fault I was disciplined."