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4/2/17

Lawsuit against Trump for encouraging campaign rally violence will go forward

A lawsuit against Donald Trump for inciting violence at one of his 2016 campaign rallies will be going forward.

U. S. District Judge David J. Hale of the Western District of Kentucky also wrote in an opinion and order released Friday that because violence had broken out at a prior Trump rally and that known hate group members were in the Louisville crowd, Trump's ordering the removal of an African-American woman was "particularly reckless."

Citing case law from tumultuous 1960s race riots and student protests, Hale rejected motions to dismiss the pending complaint against Trump and three supporters in the crowd that was filed by three protesters after a March 1, 2016, campaign rally in Louisville.

Video of the event showed the protesters being aggressively pushed by, among others, white supremacist toad Matthew Heimbach after Trump, at the podium, issued what the judge agreed was "an instruction, a command" to remove them.

While does not mean that the lawsuit against Trump will eventually be successful, the judge agreed that the plaintiffs had made sufficient case for it to go forward. It has now been referred to a Kentucky magistrate.



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