Donald Trump’s rally Sunday in Bloomfield, Ill. left a local cemetery in need of repair after attendees reportedly “drove over graves … and tore up turf.”
According to the Illinois Pantagraph, the rally attracted more than 3,000 individuals who came to see the Republican presidential front-runner or participate in demonstrations against him. The venue for the event was located near a cemetery where several reports of damage were filed with police.
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“Headstones were broken out there,” Charlotte Twyford, who has two relatives buried in the cemetery, told the Pantagraph. “Throughout the day, we kept seeing and hearing reports from the cemetery, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.”
“It just shows that some people had a total disrespect for the graves and they need to be prosecuted,” Twyford said.
Several off-duty firefighters and neighbors volunteered to help repair some of the damage done, but cemetery officials have yet to respond for requests for comment.
Evidence of the damage was captured in various photographs posted on social media channels following Trump’s rally on Sunday.
Trump supporters at rally today drove and parked on graves at cemetery across from BMI airport (h/t @Pantagraph) pic.twitter.com/A65r0lgdWM
— Barton Lorimor (@bartonlorimor) March 14, 2016
