Hoosiers ejected black protester from Trump rally

In a viral video from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's Super Tuesday rally in Louisville, his supporters shoved a black female protester through the crowd.

At least two of those Trump supporters are from Indiana — among them, a white supremacist who was recently fired by the Indiana Department of Child Services, and an aspiring Marine who has reportedly been discharged because of the incident.

University of Louisville student Shiya Nwanguma said in a radio interview that she held up signs with Trump's face on a pig's body. Trump ordered his supporters to get her out of the room, and she said people yelled racial slurs and profanities at her as they shoved her out.

She told WFPL, Louisville's NPR News Station, that she filed a police report on the incident.

The racially charged video spread quickly and sparked outrage, particularly in the wake of Trump, two days before, declining to disavow an endorsement from Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Matthew Heimbach, who leads a white separatist group called Traditional Youth Network, wrote on his blog that he was involved in the shoving incident. He is seen in the video wearing a red hat.

He said Nwanguma, the protester, had been disruptive. His group also posted Friday an argument that violence is part of public discourse.

"It won't be me next time," Heimbach wrote, "but White Americans are getting fed up and they're learning that they must either push back or be pushed down."

Heimbach and his group have also been accused of attacking other people during the rally in at least two criminal complaints filed last week, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

In January, Heimbach trained for three weeks to become a family case manager in Dubois County for the Indiana Department of Child Services, according to the state personnel department. He was terminated Jan. 29 "for inability to successfully complete the working test," state records say.

Another man seen shoving and yelling in the video was reported to be Joseph Pryor of Corydon.

He was discharged from the Marine Corps Delayed Entry Program, a program that prepares prospective enlistees for boot camp, reported WAVE 3 News, the NBC affiliate in Louisville.

“Joseph Pryor demonstrated poor judgment in his use of social media that associates him with a racially charged altercation at a political rally. Hatred toward any group of individuals is not tolerated in the Marine Corps and he is being discharged from our delayed entry program effective yesterday,” the Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Louisville told the station in a statement.

A third man in the video is speculated to have Hoosier ties, but IndyStar was not able to confirm his identity.

Marisa Kwiatkowski contributed to this report.

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