Pennsylvania Halloween parade float depicts Kamala Harris chained to cart carrying Trump

A governmental interval successful a Halloween parade conscionable extracurricular Pittsburgh — featuring Vice President Kamala Harris chained to the backmost of a play cart — has prompted an apology from the lawsuit coordinators.

Images from the parade successful Mount Pleasant, sponsored by Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, astir instantly started making the rounds connected societal media. Many of them amusement a inferior conveyance decked retired successful American flags and run signs for Donald Trump that is besides surrounded by a gaggle of radical dressed up to look similar Secret Service agents.

A costumed participan made up arsenic the erstwhile president is riding connected the play cart, portion different person, who is dressed up arsenic Harris, walks down it successful chains.

“People are upset astir this,” Michelle Milan McFall, seat of the Westmoreland County Democratic Party, told WTAE. “And I think, too, we’re 5 days retired from what is the astir contentious predetermination successful a region that is not ever astatine bid with itself. You know, we’ve seen governmental unit successful this county.”

NAACP Pittsburgh Branch President Daylon Davis successful a written connection besides condemned the float.

“They depicted Vice President Kamala Harris, a Black woman, successful chains, being led by a conveyance marked with erstwhile President Donald Trump’s name,” helium said. “This appalling portrayal goes beyond the realm of Halloween satire oregon escaped expression; it is simply a harmful awesome that evokes a achy past of violence, oppression, and racism that Black and Brown communities person agelong endured present successful America.”

In a connection connected Facebook Thursday night, the Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department apologized “for allowing the violative participants” to beryllium successful the parade.

“We bash not stock successful the values represented by those participants, and we recognize however it whitethorn person wounded oregon offended members of our community,” the station said.

The section added that it “will beryllium reviewing our readying processes to forestall a concern similar this from happening again.”