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At least two men attending President Donald Trump\u2019s rally in Ohio attacked a female protester in a \u201csenseless\u201d confrontation decried by the mayor of Youngstown on Tuesday.
A pair of men, one in an adjustable baseball cap and a bald man in a dark T-shirt, put hands on a woman Monday during the GOP event inside Covelli Centre in Youngstown, multiple videos of the incident showed.
The man in a blue baseball cap pawed at the woman, wearing a shirt reading \u201cRelease the Epstein Files<\/a>,\u201d and pushed her down before the balding man jumped on her.
He appeared to throw multiple punches at the woman\u2019s face, pull her hair and put her in a headlock before uniformed law enforcement officers arrived to take her away.
\u201cIt must be emphatically stated that senseless (political) violence has absolutely NO place in our community or in our democratic process,\u201d Youngstown Mayor Derrick McDowell<\/a> said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
\u201cRegardless of someone\u2019s political affiliation or their point of view, every person attending a public event has the right to do so without fear of being assaulted or threatened,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI condemn this senseless conduct unequivocally.\u201d
Youngstown police were not <\/strong><\/em>at the event, as security was provided by the Mahoning County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Secret Service, McDowell said.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone was arrested or charged. Representatives for the sheriff and the Mahoning County Prosecutor\u2019s Office could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.
The violence briefly delayed Trump\u2019s speech as he watched it unfold.
He mocked the protester\u2019s weight and said, without evidence, that she must have been paid to be there.
\u201cYou know they\u2019re paid protesters,\u201d Trump said<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s a very low-class protester.\u201d
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump is in Ohio seeking to boost GOP hopes in what has been a reliably red state. Sen. Jon Husted has been trailing in polls <\/a>against Democratic former Sen. Sherrod Brown, and onetime Trump rival Vivek Ramaswamy is locked in a close battle for the governor\u2019s office against Democrat Amy Acton<\/a>.
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