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An incident captured on video appeared to show two women who were protesting President Donald Trump on Thursday taking a "Make America Great Again" hat from a child and tearing up pro-Trump posters.
The incident continued to escalate throughout the video as the women and the child's mother shouted back and forth and threatened each other with physical injury.
"They attacked my son. I have it on video," the boy's mother can be heard telling a man at one point during the video.
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One of the women can then be heard responding to the allegation: "Nobody touched your kid. Back up. I'm telling you to back the f*** up right now."
A student-led group that supports Trump, called Students for Trump, shared the video on its Twitter account on Thursday. In the post, Students for Trump said "radical leftists attacked" the 7-year-old boy because "he was simply showing his support" for the president.
"Truly shameful," the group said.
The conservative website The Daily Caller on Friday spoke with the mother, Abbey Wigton, who said she attended an anti-Joe Biden protest in Wilmington, Delaware, with her son on Thursday. Biden formally accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination Thursday night at the Chase Center in Wilmington during the final day of the Democratic National Convention.
Wigton told The Daily Caller that her son was wearing a MAGA hat and she was holding a pro-Trump sign outside a restaurant at the time the two women approached them, took the sign away and "assaulted" the boy.
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"The Joe Biden supporters laid hands on my child and ripped his 'Make America Great Again' hat from his head while cursing at him and pushing him over," Wigton said.
The video begins as one woman is seen stepping on and tearing up the poster.
"Get off my property. Are you destroying my property?" Wigton can be heard saying.
"Yes we are," the woman responds. The other woman is then seen picking a MAGA hat off the ground and throwing it to her companion.
"That's somebody else's hat," Wigton's son can be heard saying as he runs after them. He begins crying as the women refuse to return the hat, which is later thrown over a nearby fence.
Two men are later seen entering the frame as the interactions between the women and Wigton escalate. One woman tries to punch one of the men and later also tries to punch Wigton. Wigton can be heard saying, "You think I'm not afraid of you?" before the video abruptly ends.
Students for Trump later tweeted that the boy received a call on Friday from the White House.
Newsweek reached out to Students for Trump for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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