At least two protesters at presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rally in Louisville Tuesday have filed police reports that allege they were attacked by Trump supporters.
Henry Brousseau, 17, says he was punched in the stomach by a Trump supporter at the event in the Kentucky International Convention Center.
The Courier-Journal reports Brousseau and a small group of other protesters unfurled banners and chanted “Black Lives Matter” about 15 minutes into Trump’s speech. Brousseau told police Trump supporters pulled at the banners and that a woman punched him in the stomach until he dropped the sign he was holding.
Brousseau filed a complaint with Louisville Metro Police, and told officers he had photos of the woman who punched him.
The paper reported Thursday afternoon that a second protester, Molly Shah, also filed a complaint with police alleging she was attacked Tuesday.
Shah says a leader with the supremacist group Traditionalist Youth Network rushed her and other protesters, punching and kicking them.
A leader with the group, Matthew Heimbach, has admitted in an online post that he was involved in an altercation with a black female at the Louisville rally.
The Courier-Journal has identified the female protester as University of Louisville student Kayisha Nwanguma, who says she was called racial and gender epithets by Trump supporters.
A video broadcast by WLKY-TV in Louisville shows Trump supporters shoving and pushing Nwanguma through the crowd after she began to protest during Trump’s speech.
Heimbach said in a video posted online Wednesday that Trump protesters screamed obscenities and threats during the speech, and that a protester knocked an older man to the group.
