Protesters Alleging Assault by Trump Security Team Can Proceed With Lawsuit

Source: The New York Law Journal


The judge refused to dismiss the protesters’ claims that Trump, the Trump Organization and Trump’s presidential campaign were vicariously liable for the actions of longtime Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller and other guards.

By Andrew Denney | August 21, 2018 at 01:03 PM

President Donald Trump can’t shake a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who allege they were in 2015 by the then-candidate’s security detail in front of Trump Tower during a campaign speech.

Bronx Supreme Court Justice Fernando Tapia refused to dismiss the protesters’ claims that Trump, the Trump Organization and Trump’s presidential campaign were vicariously liable for the actions of longtime Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller and other guards named as defendants in the case, finding that Trump “authorized and condoned” the guards’ type of conduct.

Efrain Galicia and four other Mexican activists, who are plaintiffs in the case, say they took to the streets outside Trump Tower in September 2015 in response to Trump’s statements during a June 16, 2015, campaign announcement that Mexico is sending “rapists” and people bringing drugs and crime into the United States.
During their demonstration, protesters carried signs with slogans such as “Trump: Make America Racist Again,” and a few donned Ku Klux Klan outfits, according to the protesters’ suit.

Galicia claims that Schiller approached the group and grabbed his sign, causing a scuffle to ensue, though both men are at odds as to who initiated the physical contact.




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