Halloween parades took place all across America last week, but one parade in Pennsylvania is drawing the ire of many after a video surfaced showing someone dressed as Kamala Harris shackled to the back of a Trump-themed golf cart-style vehicle.
Video taken by Ashley Frailey shows the vehicle with a Donald Trump banner on the front of it being driven by a woman with a child in her lap at a Halloween parade in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 30.
Standing in the back of the golf cart was man dressed like the former president, and he was being “escorted” by other men dressed as a Secret Service agents, including at least one with a fake gun strapped around his chest.
A replica assault rifle was mounted to the top of the golf cart, the video showed, and an audio recording of Trump speaking could also be heard.
Tied to the back of the cart was a woman dressed as Kamala Harris; the woman appeared to have had her hands tied together and was tethered to the golf cart, and Frailey was quick to voice her dismay at the participants.
“Y’all are disgusting…I can’t believe you agreed to do this,” Frailey said. “This is disgusting.”
The woman dressed as Harris was walking and staring at her phone before briefly looking up at Frailey as she filmed the incident. A man dressed like a Secret Service agent walking next to the woman dressed as Harris appeared to motion nonchalantly towards Frailey.
Speaking to local news affiliate WPXI, Mount Pleasant Mayor Diane Bailey said that she was appalled at the display but did not know how it made it into the parade.
“That is a legitimate question, and I cannot answer that totally,” Bailey, a Democrat, told WPXI. “Right now, we’re just trying to do damage control the best we can, but after it’s already done, I’m not sure there’s much we can do except for going forward.”
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In a statement released the next day, the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, which sponsors the parade, apologized for “allowing the offensive participants to take part” in the festivities.
“The annual Halloween parade is a first come, first serve event and we have traditionally only provided safety and traffic control,” the volunteer fire department’s statement read in part. “We will be reviewing our planning processes to prevent a situation like this from happening again.”
The incident comes less than a week before the general election, which happens on Nov. 5.
