WATCH: Dozens of Pennsylvania Trump Supporters Wear MAGA Hats to Protest City Council President Who Compared Them to KKK Hoods
Dozens of Trump supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania, staged a protest at a city council meeting after the president compared MAGA hats to Ku Klux Klan hoods.
The protesters wore their red hats to the meeting to demand the resignation of City Council President Jasmine Flores after she claimed that at least 90 percent of Trump supporters are “racist” in a Facebook post.
In her unhinged post, Flores wrote:
About 90% if not more of you red hat followers need to be honest with yourselves and acknowledge that WHITEHOOD you all own or were raised to own because of your SICK family history.
YOU ARE A RACIST and if your a person of color you need to stop hating yourself and find your roots because you are lost and your assimilation is showing and you are embarrassing the rest of us who have educated ourselves on the REAL AMERICANS HISTORY WITH ALL ITS BLOODSHED AND SLAUGHTER FOR BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE!!
That redhat is the new whitehoods for the KKK and I want to be wrong but when people show you who they are you have to believe them!!
The rant was posted on October 28 and was not deleted as of November 22.
At this week’s council meeting, Trump supporters wore their hats to speak at the podium and ask for her to step down.
“Well, what this is, is showing that ‘yeah, we’re wearing red hats, but we are not members of the KKK,” Kimberly Hunter, a Trump supporter who attended the meeting, told local news station WJET. “It’s okay to think what you want to think and post what you want to post, but when you’re an elected county official or a city official, you are held to a much higher standard.”
The meeting grew so intense that security had to break up at least one clash.
Flores remains unapologetic and says she will not step down.
“I stand by what I said. If you see something, you say something. If I made them uncomfortable because of what I said, maybe you need to readdress how you guys are approaching the community at large,” said Flores, according to the WJET report. “The City of Erie elected me at large within city limits, and I will not disrespect them by leaving my seat. I will be running for re-election.”
Instead, Flores said that the protesters’ actions were “unacceptable.”
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