A brawl broke out between two attendees of a Bernie Sanders rally in Colorado on Sunday evening.
The fight, which broke out while the Democratic presidential candidate was speaking at the Colorado Convention Center and was captured on video, happened after a Sanders supporter confronted another man wearing a T-shirt that said “Black Guns Matter.”
The man wearing the shirt, who is black, told CBS Denver that he was recording the Sanders rally when the other man came up to him and called him a “racist.”
“He had a problem with the shirt I was wearing,” the man, who did not identify himself to the channel, said. “I was recording the event, he walks up and calls me a racist. But I thought, ‘What’s he know about black lives, about discrimination, or, for that matter, the representation of the shirt.'”
The confrontation quickly escalated, with the fight spilling over a metal barrier and the two men falling onto the ground in front of the stage where Sanders was speaking.
Sanders did not respond to the scuffle and continued speaking to the crowd.
The Sanders supporter, who identified himself as Tyler, told local media that the confrontation escalated after he heard the man in the T-shirt booing Sanders.
The man in the shirt – who said he agrees with many of Sanders’ proposals, but not on guns – expressed shock at being attacked at a political rally.
“I think it’s really a sad thing at a Bernie rally, when someone has a difference of opinion, that someone would be treated like that,” he told CBS Denver. “I thought it really would be a lot more inclusive than that. It’s not a safe place to express differences.”
The man added: “I would expect that sort of thing at a Trump rally.”
The incident in Colorado is just the latest report of attacks on critics and political opponents by Sanders’ supporters, although this is the first report of a physical fight at a rally this cycle.