Woman arrested during Plymouth’s dueling political rallies
By Jenna Manto
Posted Nov 2, 2020
PLYMOUTH — A woman was arrested at Plymouth Rock on Oct. 31 and charged with assault and battery and disturbing the peace after a police officer saw her swing her fist and hit another woman in the face during opposing Black Lives Matter and Trump rallies, according to Plymouth police.
The woman who was arrested, Dianna Ploss, has been involved in previous rallies as a supporter of President Trump.
Plymouth police said that these rallies between Black Lives Matter and Trump supporters have been going on for about six weeks and have been getting progressively bigger each week.
Typically the opposing groups stand on either side of the road from one another near Plymouth Rock, with Trump supporters typically standing on the side of the road next to the ocean and Black Lives Matter protestors on the other side of the road, but on this day the Black Lives Matter protestors showed up early and stood on both sides, according to police. The groups co-mingled and were vying for space by the road.
Police said that there was a group of people yelling at one another, which Ploss was part of, and that an officer had to step in to tell the group to keep their space, but 15 minutes later another disturbance occurred when Ploss hit the woman in the face, after which the officer arrested her at 12:53 p.m.
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