Chicago Trump protesters hope to disrupt Friday appearance

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO) A group of University of Illinois Chicago students is organizing a massive protest on Friday to try and disrupt Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s rally at the UIC Pavilion.

Organizer Asha Binbek told “The Jonathan Brandmeier Show” on WLS, that Trump’s message is not welcome, saying  “Well honestly, what he’s saying has no place on our campus.”

Binbek says thousands of protesters are expected and many will try to obtain free tickets to Trump’s rally so they can shout him down.   “The tickets are free so what we wanted to do was encourage as many people as we could to fill up those seats.”

The taxpayer-run University says Trump paid to rent out the Pavilion for the Friday night rally.     Because of that, the UIC Chancellor says the school has no grounds to deny Trump use of the arena.

Binbek, who supports Democrat Bernie Sanders for President, says her group wants to send a message to the GOP front runner.

“Just to disrupt him as much as we can.  We want to make sure that what he’s saying, nobody is condoning it at our school.  Our University prides itself on how diverse we are, so I think that it’s very important, we think that it’s very important for Trump to know that he is not welcome here.”

At past rallies, Trump’s security guards have forcibly removed protesters who tried to disrupt him from speaking.

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