Sopan Deb: ‘Indian-origin journalist’ detained outside cancelled Trump rally (Video)

CBS News journalist Sopan Deb was thrown to the ground and arrested while covering a planned Donald Trump rally in Chicago that devolved into chaos, CBS reported.

“I’ve never seen anything like what I’m witnessing in my life,” Sopan Deb tweeted about the unrest and violence.

Recent events are indeed unprecedented, at least in the last few decades. Trump has surged forward to become the party’s front runner. His campaign rallies draw thousands of supporters. But they have also devolved into racially-charged violence and chaos.

After a tense, violent rally in St. Louis on Friday morning, at which Trump was regularly interrupted by demonstrators and an African-American activist was left bloody, Trump cancelled his rally in Chicago.

Not only did Sopan Deb get knocked down without warning and arrested by Chicago police, he was charged with resisting, which video of the incident contradicts. The video is posted below.

“There’s definitely been a recent uptick [in hostility],” Sopan Deb said in an interview with CBS. “I have certainly never seen anything like last night. That was unprecedented.”

But Sopan Deb has personally faced racism while doing his job covering the Trump campaign, as recorded on his Twitter feed.

A Trump supporter just asked me at Reno event if I was taking pictures for ISIS. When I looked shocked, he said, "yeah, I'm talking to you."

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 10, 2016

Agencies/Canadajournal