Donald Trump rallies are turning violent

 

Observers have been worrying about heightened tensions at Donald Trump rallies for while, and now they're turning violent.

On Wednesday night, a Trump supporter sucker-punched an African-American protester as he was being escorted out of a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Last month, a Secret Service agent choke-slammed a Time Magazine photographer after he left the media pen to photograph a group of protesters.

And at Trump press conference on Tuesday night, a Breitbart News reporter was reportedly yanked by the arm by Trump's campaign manager (though the campaign disputes that account).

Such violence, which is unprecedented in the history of modern presidential campaigns, is the inevitable result of the charged anti-protester and anti-media rhetoric coming out of the mouth of the candidate himself, reporters and observers say.

Nearly every day for the last three months, Trump stood before crowds of thousands and encouraged his fans to heckle protesters and reporters.

While reporters covering Trump are reticent to discuss the campaign's tactics on the record, outside observers are becoming more and more vocal about what they see as a dangerous trend.

"Whether Trump gets the nomination at the convention or is denied it," Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere tweeted on Thursday, "there seems about 100% chance of violence 

This is a dangerous sign for America