An Indiana couple has been charged with allegedly using their car to drive two teenage boys off the road for having pro-Trump flags on their bicycles.
Police officers in Hobart, Indiana, said Snapchat videos led to charges against Kyren Gregory Perry-Jones and Cailyn Marie Smith for allegedly running the two bicyclists off the road.
A probable cause affidavit said the bicyclists told officers that a vehicle occupied by a man and woman pulled up and asked them if they were Trump supporters. The boys responded that they were, at which point they were run off the road by the driver, according to Fox 32 Indiana.
The driver then got out of his car and ripped the Trump flag off one of the bikes before driving over it with the car. The Snapchat recording shows a driver and his female passenger taunting the young boys during the altercation, police said.
“Y’all better get home,” the male driver can be heard saying.
“Y’all scared, just like your president,” the female passenger can be heard saying, along with, “America is not great.”
At one point, the driver told the boys that if they called 911, he would tell police the boys called him a racial slur, according to the Northwest Indiana Times.
The attack is indicative of a larger trend of attacks against Trump supporters. Since 2015, at least 300 instances of violence against Trump supporters have been documented.
Indiana: Kyren Gregory Perry-Jones & Cailyn Marie Smith have been arrested & charged for allegedly forcing two teens riding bicycles adorned with Trump flags off the road. Police say they swerved at the boys & then got out to tear off one of the flags. https://t.co/AMESSxkKpI pic.twitter.com/Nqbvn1bDc9
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 21, 2020
