Approximately 30 African American students at Valdosta State University were ejected from a Trump rally held on their campus this Monday.
According to the Huffington Post, the students were standing quietly in their gymnasium when they were asked by Secret Service agents to leave the premises.
This account has been rejected by Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback as well as Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks.
This is not the first time that people have been kicked out of Trump events for ambiguous reasons. Just hours before the event at Valdosta, a Secret Service agent choke-slammed a TIME magazine photographer who was trying to capture images of a #BlackLivesMatter protest held at a Trump event in Virginia.
Valdosta sophomore Tahjila Davis told TIME that Trump supporters shouted racial slurs when she and her schoolmates were escorted out. They remember hearing the "N" word, along with demands to “go home” and “get out of here.”
“I was scared,” she said. “You don’t know if somebody is going to come up and hit you, throw something at you. It’s really terrifying.”
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