The Daily Populous Monday April 7th, 2025 night edition
Authored by thedailybeast.com and submitted by Ok-Direction-4480

A Trump supporter brandished an AR-style rifle during a clash with an anti-Trump protestor at a “Hands Off” rally in Indiana on Saturday.

In several social media clips, a man clad in a grey MAGA hoodie and white hat appears to exit his vehicle to confront another man in a crowd chanting, “Protect the Constitution!”

MAGA man threatens Hands Off protesters in Indiana with assault rifle—police just let him go.

Trump supporter mad about stopped traffic got out of his truck, put on a Trump shirt, retrieved an assault rifle from his vehicle, and then headed toward the crowd.

Witnesses said he… pic.twitter.com/yCIVEClP40 — LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@LongTimeHistory) April 6, 2025

As spectators and the Trump fan’s passengers—one identifying themselves as his wife—filmed the standoff, others attempted to pull the men apart. Unrelenting, the two men continued to scream in each other’s faces until the Trump supporter suffered a headbutt to the nose.

People gather at Tapawingo Park on Saturday, April 5, 2025, during the “Remove! Reverse! Reclaim!” protest in Lafayette, Indiana. Alex Martin/Journal and Courier / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Backing away after the hit, the Trump fan pulled an AR-style rifle from his car and went back to confront the man. He tells passengers to call 911 as he touches his bleeding nose.

Clips of the bust-up ignited a flood of social media comments on X as users took sides.

“Felony menacing right there. Clear as day,” one wrote.

Another added, “He was assaulted. He would have had every right to …”

The Journal & Courier reported that the Trump fan brandishing the AR-style rifle was arrested and later released after police determined he acted in self-defense.

According to eyewitnesses, the man became enraged after he was blocked from turning at an intersection by a crowd of protestors. It was at that moment that he jumped out of his car and went to confront the protestors, the Journal & Courier reported.

maga man ruins his life after getting arrested for brandishing his rifle at anti-Trump protestors pic.twitter.com/uEXrKuze6d — Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) April 6, 2025

The Lafayette, Indiana, protest was one of thousands of anti-Trump protests held across the United States and Europe as part of the “Hands Off! Mass Mobilization” movement, Reuters reported.

The protests are calling for a stop to President Donald Trump’s massive government overhaul, directed by Elon Musk’s DOGE, which has left thousands of federal workers out of work, reported Reuters.

Lumpy_Benefit_298 on April 6th, 2025 at 19:09 UTC »

MAGA’s wife is a TikToker. She was looking to provoke and monetize an incident.

Practical_BowlerHat on April 6th, 2025 at 17:48 UTC »

He was released because he "acted in self defense?"

He didn't have the rifle on his person when he was headbutted and brandish it immediately after.

He left to his vehicle- which he could have used to move to a different area of the event and escape the conflict threatening his safety- and retrieved the rifle, and then returned to the scene with the intent to restart the fight on his terms.

That's not self defense. That's an angry man wanting to get the bigger, deadlier, swing in, and a police force happy to help him do it.

Ok-View-3258 on April 6th, 2025 at 17:32 UTC »

The police lied about the events and even had the nerve to victimize the MAGA guy even though there’s video evidence of the MAGA being aggressive before and was told to back up many times because he kept attacking the protesters like seen in the video, he was able to leave but instead he chose to come back with his gun. He and his wife had planned to go there in the first place yet the police lied and said they were randomly there. She posted about it before they went!