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In Sioux City, Hundreds Protest Ugly Rhetoric and Bullying from Donald Trump

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Yesterday, students in Sioux City, Iowa organized a protest of Donald Trump’s campaign appearance at West High School. Over 800 people showed up for the event:

From Eastern to Western Iowa, a diverse crowd hoping to quiet Trump in Sioux City with a silent protest.

“We are not going to stand for Trump being here at West because he’s a bully,” said a West High Student.

The group of protestors slamming the billionaire businessman’s rhetoric.

“…They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some I assume are good people,” Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump said on June 16, 2015.

Those comments from Trump’s announcement speech back in June prompting this protest.

“We’re trying to prove that all the things (referring to Trump) he has said are basically lies against us” said Sonia Rodriguez, a senior at West High School.” we’re all just great people trying to be here and not criminals or anything he’s said against us.

At West High, 33% of the student body is Hispanic, which is higher than the district average.

That’s right. This school in Sioux City, Iowa – the heart of Steve King’s district – is 33% Hispanic. Organizers also conducted a voter registration drive during the protest.

Local television news coverage featured protest organizer, Ismael Valadez Muñoz:

Tweets from the protest showed the crowd and its messages

 

 

 

 

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