‘Republicans Are Despicable Scum’: White Woman Dressed As Kamala Harris While Being Pulled By Vehicle Driven By Donald Trump Supporter Sparks Outrage

A Pennsylvania parade float depicting Democratic nominee Kamala Harris chained behind a truck with former President Donald Trump at the helm sparked outrage among residents and officials who compared the display to a lynching. The float appeared last Thursday in a children’s Halloween parade in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, where its presence left attendees stunned, with some describing the assemblage as a simulated lynching. Photo shows woman dressed as VP Kamala chained and pulled behind a truck. (Credit: Screengrab KDKA) The effigy of Harris was an actual person, dressed in a pantsuit and wearing the same hairstyle as the vice president, while walking slowly behind the float in handcuffs tied to a rope. The float immediately drew comparisons to the 1998 slaying of James Byrd Jr., a Black man who was horrifically dragged to his death behind a pickup truck in Texas by three white supremacists, leading to the establishment of state and federal hate crime laws. “It’s a hot political season, probably not something I’d want at a children’s parade,” Josh Huff, a resident of Mount Pleasant, told WPXI Channel 11, saying the float reminded him of a lynching. Mount Pleasant Mayor Diane Bailey said that she was also appalled,...