Protesters disrupted a New York City stage production of "Julius Caesar" Friday that featured a bloody assassination of a character that resembled President Trump. 
 
 One protester, identified as Rebel Media's Laura Loomer, stormed the stage and shouted, "Stop Leftist Violence." 
 
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 Another protester, identified as Jack Posobiec, rose to his feet and yelled, "The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands" and "Goebbels would be proud." 
 
 Video of the incident was quickly posted on social media. It showed the crowd booing as an announcement was made that the show was briefly halted. 
 
 Loomer was arrested and Posobiec was escorted out of the Shakespeare in the Park theatre complex located in Central Park. 
 
 I interviewed Posobiec by phone at the Central Park Police Precinct - where he was waiting for his colleague to be processed on a criminal trespass charge. 
 
 "We were protesting what we saw was the normalization of violence," he told me. "I couldn't believe they were going on with the play in light of what happened with the attack on Congressman Scalise." 
 
 He said it was infuriating to watch the faux assassination of President Trump. 
 
 "This play was savage and brutal. He is stabbed multiple times, running around stage, crawling through blood," he told me. "It made my blood run cold seeing Americans cheering a depiction of their president being stabbed 100 times with 100 blades." 
 
 He said it turned his stomach. 
 
 "This Manhattan Central Park crowd was on their feet cheering - they were cheering as an actor dressed as the president was stabbed to death," he told me. 
 
 Not all conservatives are cheering the disruption. 
 
 "This is total, complete horse crap," conservative columnist Ben Shapiro wrote on Twitter. "She invaded a public performance to obstruct it. She has no right to the stage." 
 
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 You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| The assassination of Caesar is part of the script of the play, which was written 418 years ago by William Shakespeare; the choice to depict the title character as akin to President Trump is part of a long history of productions of the play that have used the text to explore contemporary politics. In 2012, another American production of “Julius Caesar” depicted the title character as President Barack Obama. 
 
 The decision by the Public Theater, which oversees Shakespeare in the Park, to depict Caesar as Mr. Trump has prompted social media protests from conservatives, and two corporate sponsors of the theater program, Delta Air Lines and Bank of America, withdrew their support. A third sponsor, American Express, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, took steps to make sure the public knew they had not supported the production. 
 
 Defenders of the Public Theater, saying the play does not sanction political violence but is instead a cautionary tale about the use of antidemocratic means to defend a democracy, have said the critics are misconstruing the play and this production. 
 
 Two critics of the production demonstrated outside the Delacorte on Friday night, while a slightly larger group of defenders held a counter-demonstration.
– "This is violence against Donald Trump." It's not a line written by William Shakespeare, but it's one that was uttered during Friday night's production of Julius Caesar in New York's Central Park. The Public Theater's reimagining of the play has been the subject of controversy over its choice to have a President Trump lookalike (Gregg Henry) play the title character—and ultimately be stabbed to death by a group of women and minorities. After that fatal scene, two protesters brought the show to a halt for what Artistic Director Oskar Eustis says was "less than a minute" in a statement. Laura Loomer, 24, rushed the stage and cried out the former line, along with, "Stop the normalization of political violence against the right." The New York Times reports she calls herself "a right-wing investigative journalist and activist" and has connections to James O'Keefe. A man the Times frames as her "collaborator," Jack Posobiec, went with a WWII reference, calling out, "You are all Goebbels." The pair were removed by security to applause. Loomer was ultimately charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct after refusing orders to back away from the theater. Posobiec explained their motivation to Fox News, first echoing Loomer, "We were protesting what we saw was the normalization of violence. I couldn't believe they were going on with the play in light of what happened with the attack on Congressman Scalise." A tweet from the Public Theater described the two as "paid protesters."