Trump Supporters, Black Lives Matter Protester Clash At Rally

The Twitter row comes after Trump said at a rally in Alabama that he wants “surveillance of certain mosques” and surveillance of Muslims arriving in the country.

As the Huffington Post notes, “According to the U.S. Department of Justice statistics, 84 percent of white people killed every year are killed by other whites”.

The video begins with Black Lives Matter protester Mercutio Southall on the floor, struggling to get up.

Police officers then escorted the protester out.

Southall told CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, “I got punched in the face, I got punched in the neck”.

Last year’s Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics show that the numbers in Trump’s tweet are incorrect and appear to be aimed at perpetuating racist myths about black people and crime. “One supporter can be heard chanting ‘all lives matter” on the video.

“Yeah! I know I’d get beat up”, Kiger insisted, adding that he would be “at least roughed up” by black church members. He also said they did not offer medical attention.

“It did happen. I saw it”, Trump said.

On Sunday, Donald Trump, who now holds a double-digit lead among GOP candidates, tweeted out fake murder stats that says 81 percent of whites are murdered by blacks and that blacks killed by police make up only 1 percent.

Sunday morning Trump told Fox News that perhaps Southall deserved to be “roughed up”. CNN also confirmed Southall’s claims that he was shoved and kicked by a female Trump supporter.

Mr Trump, who has a reputation for making bombastic, inflammatory comments, recently claimed thousands of New Jersey Arab residents celebrated the fall of the Twin Towers.

Trump had warned in August after Black Lives Matter activists disrupted a Bernie Sanders campaign event that if the movement’s activists protested one of his events, they would have a fight on their hands.

As Southall took blows on Saturday, Trump tried to press on with his stump speech, but paused to remark at the apparent disruption and said, “Get ’em the hell out of here”. “He was screaming. I had 10,000 people in the room yesterday – 10,000 people”.

A noted Republican strategist Rick Wilson, now working for a Marco Rubio Super PAC, offered to prepare attack ads hitting Donald Trump on his record.

It reads: ‘Blacks killed by whites – 2%.

Trump’s anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric is a hallmark of his presidential campaign and has incited racism from his supporters.