A community organizer who was arrested at Donald Trump's only St. Louis rally is suing the city, its police department and President Trump himself.
The rally, held at the Peabody Opera House in March 2016, featured numerous displays of protests, including a coordinated eruption by activists that stopped Trump from speaking for a full ten minutes.
But Rodney Brown says he wasn't part of that effort. In fact, he says his only response to Trump was to laugh — and yet he found himself targeted by both the candidate, who commanded "get him out of here" and the officers who complied with that order.
Following Brown's removal, the candidate mused from the podium that he was among "the people who are destroying our country," the suit alleges.
In a suit filed in federal court yesterday, the nonprofit MacArthur Justice Center says that the removal — and Brown's subsequent prosecution — were unlawful retaliation for Brown exercising his First Amendment rights.…