VALDOSTA – Thirty students were booted from last week’s Donald Trump rally at Valdosta State University, and a student who witnessed the incident says the group was removed for using profanity and the incident “was not racial.”

Tamelonie Thomas said she was asked to leave the rally but was not a part of the group of students wearing all black who were removed from the event about 30 minutes before Trump took the stage.

In an interview with The Valdosta Daily Times, Thomas said students dressed in all black clothing were “taken outside because of the profanity.”

“Nothing happened. No one was arrested. No one was mistreated. Everyone was respectful,” Thomas told the Times. “I just don’t like people, and the media, trying to turn this into something that it was not.”

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