Burka-Clad Heckler Booted From Obama Rally

Secret Service probing disturbance at VCU
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted May 8, 2012 2:59 AM CDT
Updated May 8, 2012 3:22 AM CDT

The Secret Service is investigating a weird disturbance at a President Obama campaign stop over the weekend. Reporters at the Virginia Commonwealth University rally saw a woman wearing a burka adorned with US military pins and carrying what appeared to be a Koran hauled out of the rally by police after heckling from the audience, WTVR reports. Police say the woman was escorted out of the building after causing a disturbance, but was not arrested. She's heard protesting loudly as she's led out on a video taken at the scene. (More Obama 2012 stories.)

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