Woman Arrested During Plymouth Political Rally

PLYMOUTH—A woman was arrested in Plymouth on Saturday and charged with assault and battery and disturbing the peace after hitting another woman in the face during conflicting Black Lives Matter and Trump rallies on Water Street.

Dianna Ploss, the woman who was arrested, has been involved in previous rallies as a Trump supporter. She is also a former WSMN radio host and was let go in July after recording herself telling a Morin's Landscaping crew to speak English and questioning their immigration status.

According to Plymouth police, the rallies between Black Lives Matter and Trump supporters have been going on every Saturday afternoon for several months and consistently increasing in size. The two opposing political groups usually stand on opposite sides of the road near Plymouth Rock, but on Saturday, the groups intermingled and competed for space.

Plymouth police said that Ploss was involved in a group of people yelling at each other and that an officer intervened to tell the group to keep their space. However, it was only moments later when Ploss hit another woman the face and was subsequently arrested at 12:53 p.m. She was released several hours later and returned to the rally.