Pose star Indya Moore got into a heated altercation with a Trump supporter in New York City on Friday and things quickly turned violent.
In a video uploaded to Facebook, Moore is seen stomping on a giant “Re-Elect Trump in 2020: Keep America Great!” sign outside of the studio where Pose is filmed while a woman off-camera says, “That’s personal property, sweetheart.”
A man approaches and tries pulling the sign away from Moore, who tells him, “You’re not a fan of our show, and we don’t want you to be a fan of our show.”
The two wrestle over the sign before the man violently shoves Moore twice, who responds by snatching the man’s red MAGA hat. That’s when NYPD police step in to diffuse the situation.
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As police try to calm Moore down, they can be heard saying, “You could’ve died for Trump! He could’ve stabbed you!”
The disturbing footage was uploaded to Facebook by Dion Cini, who is believed to be the man in the video, where it has racked up over 900K views since Friday.
Posted by Dion Cini on Friday, June 7, 2019
After the footage went viral, Moore took to Twitter to thank followers for their support, tweeting: “Thank you for loving my community, fighting for us, supporting us fight for ourselves and others who are experiencing an increase of oppression and violence under this current administration.”
Thank you for loving my community, fighting for us, supporting us fight for ourselves and others who are experiencing an increase of oppression and violence under this current administration.
— IAM (@IndyaMoore) June 10, 2019
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Jared MacBride
Everybody in the video acted like a spoiled brat. She had no right to touch his sign and he had no right to touch her.
James
YOU MUST BE A TRUMP SUPPORTER !!! NOT INTERESTED IN YOU.
Cam
So in other words, a guy showed up to where he know a show featuring a lot of Trans people would be holding a sign showing support for a politician that has attacked and sought to harm trans people.
If somebody showed up to the Southern Baptist convention holding an anti-Christian sign much worse would have happened to them.
BornTo
That’s how freedom of speech works! Perhaps you need a civics lesson! Or maybe you’d be happier sending people to re-education camps like in Russia!
mr guy
You’re wasting your time with @cam. He’s a loony extremist
This person had no right to violently interfere with this man’s private property and (sadly misguided) legal protest or whatever. He was trying to retrieve his property. That’s all.
Cam
@BornTo
Awww, sweetie, how adorable. You tried. Thanks for agreeing with me that the right wing Christians would have been far more dangerous and unhinged.
BornTo
@ mrguy lol and a paranoid psycho as well, poor thing, I almost pity her!
justyouandi
Cam, what has Trump done to attack and harm trans people? Catch me up.
Doug
As usual, the video doesn’t show what started it all. Were there going to be fans standing there or was she just leaving the studio, or what?
Cam
@justyouandi
Oh, you trolls are back to trying to claim that right wing bigots HAVEN’T tried to harm LGBTQ people? Weird, you tried that back in the Prop8 days and it didn’t work then.
What has Trump done? Hmmmmm, let’s see, he said he’d appoint judges to overturn those “Aweful gay rights” decisions. And he has.
He has reversed the law allowing trans soldiers who have been fighting in the military. Kicking out people who have put on a uniform and done what he avoided.
He cut research funding for AIDS
He chose Mike Pence as his VP AFTER Pence happily tried to tank the entire economy of Indiana just so he could hurt LGBT people.
But then again, you already knew that, in fact it’s why you support him.
BornTo
So it’s ok to attack personal property now? Can someone explain the rules to me? Someone’s going to get a hand cut off like the guy in SF almost did after he snatched the Maga hat off some guys head ,unfortunately for him the guy had a sword in his back pack! I might not agree with someone’s politics but I support their rights to free speech!
Cam
Thanks for showing us what @imru2’s new screename is. You may want to change your sentence structure if you’re going to try to use a sock puppet account.
DarkZephyr
BornTo, you know darn well you DO support the homophobes and transphobes. Don’t pretend otherwise.
BornTo
And you know darn well you’re just trolling! How dare you make such an outrageous, false and defamatory accusation against someone in your own community shame on you! You are the very definition of a homophobe!
Cam
@BornTo
Something can’t be defamatory if nobody knows who you are. Oh, and also, the truth is an absolute defense, so if you want to win a defamation case you’d have to first identify yourself, then be defamed….and also stop supporting bigots who hate us.
Hdtex
False equivalency is false. This dude should have had his face bashed in as well.
truthseeker
@Hdtex
Ah ok. Holding up a banner for the US President on a public sidewalk means they should have their face bashed in and then people call conservatives the fascist ones
Not surprised you’d say that. Just the other day you said I should die in a mass shooting
James
YOU ARE A COWARD AND STINKING TRUMP SUPPORTER.
Kangol2
I don’t advocate violence and I wish Indya Moore had just cursed the guy out and gone on with her business. The pathetic anti-gay/anti-trans Drumpf creeps protesting Pose do have the right to stand quietly on the street and do so, so long as they aren’t harassing her or anyone else. If they were shouting abusive comments or menacing her or anyone else, then other options kick in.
On another point, Malcolm Rhodes/Queerty, you write “diffuse,” when I think you mean “defuse.”
To diffuse = to spread, distribute; to defuse = to remove a fuse, de-escalate. In the sentence above, the latter makes sense, while the former doesn’t.
James
YOU’RE A COWARD.
Kieran
You don’t touch what doesn’t belong to you. Indya should have learned that lesson in kindergarten. Apparently she thinks she’s “special” and above rules. You look for trouble and at some point you’ll find it. Looks like she found it.
Cam
And if a right wing Christian had grabbed and burned a gay flag you would no doubt say that the flag was insulting and they shouldn’t have been holding it near the Christians.
Rock-N-RollHS
Guess he could press charges. She did bitch slap him.
Cam
@Rock-N-RollHS
No, she grabbed his sign, he hit her.
James
KEIRNAN, GO BACK TO YOUR IDIOTIC LOG CABIN CLUB LIES. NOBODY BELIEVES YOU.
russellhm
Taking a long look at the MAGAT hat-wearers, hard to tell just what stage of evolution there current undergoing. My guestimate is Australopithecus.
MCrisp
Why is this guy even out with this sign? Americans either love Trump or hate him. We’re either going to vote for him or not. So being out in public with this propaganda is just an act to piss people off.
He received the reaction he wanted. I wish Indya wouldn’t have reacted.
Why is he wearing cargo shorts?
truthseeker
People still have a right to publicly express their opinion. They don’t deserve to have property stolen and to be physically assaulted.
Look at the protesters outside of Trump tower. People can’t beat them up. Same would go for people that have a bumper sticker you don’t like. You can’t smash their windows
Cam
@truthseeker
IT’s interesting, the same accounts that defend bigotry on here also keep lying.
She grabbed his sign, he hit her.
truthseeker
@Cam
He’s on a public sidewalk. That doesn’t give people the right to violently snatch someone’s property and destroy it because you don’t like that he’s holding a presidential banner. If someone violently snatches someones purse, are you not allowed to fight back to get your property?
I’m defending the rule of law and the 1st amendment, things you’ve repeatedly shown that you are against.
boymikefl
The greatest thing is those people saying, “I don’t hate you and want to hurt you, God told me to hate you.” This “story” is now laughed at by everybody. Joke’s on the closetted homophobes and the miserable fake Evangelicals. Biggest closet queen is VP. Werk!
SportGuy
This world would be a much better place without trumptards.
MISTERJETT
say it, say it, say it, say it again!!!!
Black Pegasus
If she had gotten kicked in the face how long would it have taken for CNN and WOKE twitter to Dox and ruin his life? Yet she gets a pass for attempting to silence speech by stealing someone’s personal property. I loathe right-wingers, but I can’t stand woke leftists either.
Hdtex
Cry harder fascist. Your Nazi tears are delicious!
truthseeker
@Hdtex
How is Black Pegasus a fascist and a Nazi when you are the one who said people who disagree with you deserve to be beaten or killed?
James
GET LOST YOU STINKING TRUMP TRASH.
MCrisp
Wow! It really seems that gay men hate trans women. I do believe that had Indya been a white gay man these comments would express very different sentiments.
My political beliefs don’t align with “bleeding heart liberals” but these Trump Stumps are so out of line. He won and his supporters are loyal.
So why are we campaigning?
Again, his provocative behavior was the catalyst.
Brian
Why is he campaigning? Have you missed the 10,000 Mayor Pete stories in this site? Campaign season is in full swing.
truthseeker
And you have Joe Biden out there campaigning now saying that IF he’s elected he’ll “cure cancer”
Cam
Look, the fact is, they were there with their Trump signs outside Pose filming because Trump and the Republicans are against the very existence of LGBT people. There is no other reason to protest against a show like Pose being on TV.
The bigot defenders always try to hide this hate behind the words “A different opinion”. Yes, it is a different opinion, LGBT people want to live our lives, and they don’t want us to.
Brian
And they have every legal and moral right to do that. Why is that so hard for you to understand?
broadshoulder
Sorry, but she started it. You don’t interfere with signs
James
GET LOST YOU STINKING TRUMP TRASH.
Aires the Ram
You know, every election cycle, I see placards in peoples yards, bumper stickers on their cars, t-shirts & hats promoting one candidate or another. About 1/2 of these that I see, are not for candidate I will be voting for. But NEVER, I’ll say it again, NEVER….have any one of these signs/stickers/hats/t-shirts wound me up enough to go and grab it from someone, or scream insults at them, or any other unseemly act, just because they support who I do not. If, in some future election, Joe Green was running against Mary Brown, what the hell would possess you, {Joe Green supporter]. to rip the hat or t-shirt off a Mary Brown supporter? Wouldn’t make sense, would it? And, if you did that, you’d immediately put yourself in the category of horses ass.
James
THAT’S BECAUSE YOU ARE A COWARD.