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Trump supporter yells ‘f--- Black lives’ during North Carolina parade, video shows

Supporters of President Donald Trump shouted “f--- Black lives” and “white power” during a parade through North Carolina this weekend, video shows.

Participants honked as they drove cars adorned with pro-Trump and American flags on Saturday, according to footage distributed by Storyful Newswire.

Expletive-laced clips from the convoy can be viewed here.

In a series of Twitter posts, Megan Squire shared videos of the moments she said unfolded as she was standing at a corner holding a “Black Lives Matter” sign.

As the pro-Trump caravan passes down the street, one driver is heard on video saying: “no they f-----g don’t, b----.”

In another clip, one person yelled “f--- Black lives.” Video from Squire also captured two people shouting “white power.”

Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University, studies the ways extremist groups organize on the internet, according to the college’s website.

The moments were caught on camera near the campus of Elon, a private school roughly 20 miles east of Greensboro.

Jon Dooley, Elon’s vice president for student life, in an email to the campus community condemned the offensive language and said the university is exploring “no trespass orders” for those involved, Elon News Network reported.

A member of Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County organized the event, according to the student news organization. The Southern Poverty Law Center in 2018 listed ACTBAC as a “neo-Confederate hate group,” but it didn’t appear on the organization’s 2019 “hate map.”

Gary Williamson, organizer of the convoy, slammed the “white power” remarks.

“I am absolutely 100% against anything that was said or actions that were done by those two people,” Williamson told The News & Observer on Monday. “It is disgusting and sick.”

Young Republicans of Alamance NC in a Facebook post said Saturday’s remarks were made at an event that was “separately organized” from an earlier rally.

“Any type of racism will not be tolerated in my meetings/events including the confederate flag, racial slurs and any type of insults,” chairman T.L. Mann said in a statement.

The comments come as signs supporting Black Lives Matter have been points of contention in recent months.

In Wilmington, city councilman Charles Rivenbark said a proposed sign with the phrase was “racist,” McClatchy News reported in July.

And in Pittsboro, a property owner forced down a Black Lives Matter billboard that had been erected next to a Confederate flag, The News & Observer reported.

News & Observer reporter Carli Brosseau contributed to this report.