- Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:51 pm
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Reviled racist Matthew Heimbach admits to pushing black woman at Trump rally, blames tension on Black Lives Matter
Reviled white nationalist Matthew Heimbach admitted to pushing a black woman at a Tuesday Donald Trump rally in Louisville, Ky.
The racist hatemonger, 24, wrote a blog post about the encounter, in which he shoved the woman and repeatedly shouted, "leftist scum." The Daily News earlier identified Heimbach from video of the incident.
"[Video] features yours truly helping the crowd drive out one of the women who had been pushing, shoving, barking, and screaming at the attendees for the better part of an hour," he wrote in a post on the website for the Traditionalist Youth Network, a group that promotes white supremacy.
"Taken out of context, the elderly veteran, several others in the crowd, and I appear to be roughing up the woman because she's black," he wrote.
The incident occurred after Trump called for protesters' removal.
"Get out of here, get out of here!" the GOP presidential favorite shouted, pointing at a group of attendees. "Look at these people. Get out of here. Get Out. Out. Out Out! Get out."
Heimbach — who did not immediately respond to calls and emails for comment — blamed the tense situation on Black Lives Matter protesters, stating that the group is a "general purpose angry mob" focusing on "anti-white" matters. The Black Lives Matter demonstrators were causing all the problems, cursing at attendees and screaming threats, Heimbach says.
"There were no racial epithets or racial provocations from either the rest of the audience or from our group. There was nothing racial about the event until BLM stormed in and made it racial," he wrote. "They crashed the party, as they've crashed numerous previous ones and will crash the next one."
Attendees have said otherwise. University of Louisville student Shiya Nwanguma said she was called "a n----r and a c--t," she told a local reporter.
"The people at the rally, they were pushing and shoving at me, cursing at me, yelling at me, called me every name in the book. They are disgusting and dangerous," she said.
One protester, 17-year-old Henry Brousseau told the Courier-Journal that he had filed a report with the Louisville police against a woman in Heimbach's group who allegedly assaulted him.
Another demonstrator, Molly Shah, watched as Heimbach tried to recruit other attendees to his cause.
"I watched him for hours recruit Trump supporters with five of his buddies," said Shah. "They later attacked the group I was with. The Neo-Nazis threw punches and kicked us. I am still awake now because my body is sore."
In fact, multiple men assaulted Nwanguma at the Trump rally and should be charged criminally for it. Speaking confidentially with The News, several activists who were punched, kicked and shoved by Trump supporters communicated that they have already started the process of filing these charges — potentially including some against Trump himself for creating and fostering such a hateful and unsafe environment.
Police confirmed to The News that an investigation is underway.
“We have received three criminal complaints regarding alleged assaults at the Donald Trump rally on Tuesday and are actively investigating them,” Louisville Metro Police Department spokeswoman Alicia Smiley said.
Reviled white nationalist Matthew Heimbach admitted to pushing a black woman at a Tuesday Donald Trump rally in Louisville, Ky.
The racist hatemonger, 24, wrote a blog post about the encounter, in which he shoved the woman and repeatedly shouted, "leftist scum." The Daily News earlier identified Heimbach from video of the incident.
"[Video] features yours truly helping the crowd drive out one of the women who had been pushing, shoving, barking, and screaming at the attendees for the better part of an hour," he wrote in a post on the website for the Traditionalist Youth Network, a group that promotes white supremacy.
"Taken out of context, the elderly veteran, several others in the crowd, and I appear to be roughing up the woman because she's black," he wrote.
The incident occurred after Trump called for protesters' removal.
"Get out of here, get out of here!" the GOP presidential favorite shouted, pointing at a group of attendees. "Look at these people. Get out of here. Get Out. Out. Out Out! Get out."
Heimbach — who did not immediately respond to calls and emails for comment — blamed the tense situation on Black Lives Matter protesters, stating that the group is a "general purpose angry mob" focusing on "anti-white" matters. The Black Lives Matter demonstrators were causing all the problems, cursing at attendees and screaming threats, Heimbach says.
"There were no racial epithets or racial provocations from either the rest of the audience or from our group. There was nothing racial about the event until BLM stormed in and made it racial," he wrote. "They crashed the party, as they've crashed numerous previous ones and will crash the next one."
Attendees have said otherwise. University of Louisville student Shiya Nwanguma said she was called "a n----r and a c--t," she told a local reporter.
"The people at the rally, they were pushing and shoving at me, cursing at me, yelling at me, called me every name in the book. They are disgusting and dangerous," she said.
One protester, 17-year-old Henry Brousseau told the Courier-Journal that he had filed a report with the Louisville police against a woman in Heimbach's group who allegedly assaulted him.
Another demonstrator, Molly Shah, watched as Heimbach tried to recruit other attendees to his cause.
"I watched him for hours recruit Trump supporters with five of his buddies," said Shah. "They later attacked the group I was with. The Neo-Nazis threw punches and kicked us. I am still awake now because my body is sore."
In fact, multiple men assaulted Nwanguma at the Trump rally and should be charged criminally for it. Speaking confidentially with The News, several activists who were punched, kicked and shoved by Trump supporters communicated that they have already started the process of filing these charges — potentially including some against Trump himself for creating and fostering such a hateful and unsafe environment.
Police confirmed to The News that an investigation is underway.
“We have received three criminal complaints regarding alleged assaults at the Donald Trump rally on Tuesday and are actively investigating them,” Louisville Metro Police Department spokeswoman Alicia Smiley said.
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