A man waved a sword at a woman blocks away from a polling place, warning her to 'vote for Trump' and photographing her license plate
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Via: tessylo • 4 years ago • 7 commentsBy: Rachel E. Greenspan, Business Insider
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A man waved a sword at a woman blocks away from a polling place, warning her to 'vote for Trump' and photographing her license plate
In a viral TikTok video, a pro-Trump protester appeared to threaten a woman driving by a rally. @ajayrochester/TikTok
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A man attending a Trump rally in Beverly Hills on Saturday wielded a sword and threatened passersby to vote for Trump, a viral TikTok video showed.
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"We got you now. We got your plates, we got you," the man can be heard saying in the video, before photographing a driver's license plate.
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Ajay Rochester, the woman who filmed the incident, told Insider that she was "scared and intimidated" and called the police after the encounter.
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The location has been a site of protests for weeks, according to news reports, and recently the LA city attorney said he was "concerned" about voter intimidation. The rally was blocks from a polling place.
Rochester, an actress from Australia, said in an email that the attendees of the rally "were all there to tell and jeer at any car that did not honk and cheer them on," but that she wasn't sure why the man, who has not been identified, targeted her and assumed she was a Biden voter.
"There was nothing on my car to indicate my affiliation at all," Rochester said. "As you can see by the video I was not responding and yet he escalated it."
Rochester, whose phone logs were reviewed by Insider, called the Beverly Hills Police Department after the encounter, but she said that the woman who answered "didn't seem to care." A representative for the Beverly Hills Police Department confirmed that an official police report was not filed. Rochester also said she notified the FBI of the incident.
Rochester wrote in her TikTok, which amassed more than 200,000 likes, that the experience felt like voter intimidation. Voter intimidation concerns have spread nationwide ahead of the election.
According to a New York Times report, the Trump campaign recently filmed people as they were dropping off their ballots in Philidelphia. On Tuesday, a far-right militia leader appeared on the show of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warning that his group would be present at polling places.
Lindsay Schubiner, the program director at the Western States Center, a progressive nonprofit that researches far-right extremism, told the Washington Post that even political rallies near voting sites in the days of early voting can be "intimidating." And the fear of voter intimidation alone may be its own kind of voter intimidation, Five Thirty Eight reported .
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Yet those who don't support this 'president' are the looney left.
Fracking idiots. A little jail time would serve him well.
It must have been the Iranians! They're using reverse psychology by sending threatening emails to Democrats telling them to vote for Trump or else and mind controlling conservatives to do the same near polling places to try and help Joe Biden, yeah, that's the ticket! ... /s
These people will have guns at polling places.
The Trump campaign is increasing its efforts daily