Spotted in Tulsa: Ahead of Trump's campaign rally tomorrow, supporters have already started gathering outside the venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (📷: smahaskey)
for parts of downtown to be in effect before and after Trump’s rally Saturday in the city’s 19,000-seat BOK Center and a 40,000-capacity convention center nearby.
In his previous executive order, Bynum also revealed he had “received information from the Tulsa Police Department and other law enforcement agencies that shows that individuals from organized groups who have been involved in destructive and violent behavior in other States are planning to travel to the City of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally.”
about episodes of violence resulting from the campaign event — which overlaps with a two-day local celebration of Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.it would instead be held Saturday after facing significant criticism for the initial choice of date. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany did not specify Friday which punitive actions Trump was alluding to in his tweet, and denied that he was arguing the constitutional right to peaceably assemble should not apply to his rallies.
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