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Police in Ohio have denied claims that a Trump supporter was stabbed outside a presidential rally on Wednesday, saying the incident involved a fight and an officer's pocketknife that did not open.
The Chillicothe Police Department said an officer intervened to break up an altercation between two individuals and the retention clip securing the officer's pocketknife became caught in one of the individuals' shirts during the incident. The department said the knife did not open.
"There was no stabbing," Micheal Short, Captain of the Chillicothe Police Department, told Newsweek.
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The statement contradicts claims circulating on social media that a Trump supporter was stabbed outside the rally while the president addressed supporters at the Shoemaker Center on the Ohio University Chillicothe campus on Wednesday evening.
Conservative activist Tyer Bowyer shared the footage of the incident on X, claiming that a Trump supporter had been stabbed by an anti-Trump individual.
"Apparently some crazy anti-Trump person stabbed a Trump supporter outside his rally in Ohio," Bowyer wrote in the post's caption. "This is more of the insane political violence stoked by the Left. Pray for the person who was stabbed."
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