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BLOOMINGTON — People going to the Donald Trump rally on Sunday drove over graves and headstones and tore up turf when parking in East Lawn Memorial Gardens, according to residents with loved ones buried there.

The Republican presidential front-runner flew in for a rally at the Synergy Flight Center, which is across Empire Street from the cemetery. More than 3,000 Trump supporters and hundreds of protesters attended the event.

Charlotte Twyford of Downs said she has two relatives buried in the cemetery, and she is worried that damage may have been done to their graves after seeing several Facebook pictures of the scene and talking with cemetery officials and other families.

“Headstones were broken out there,” Twyford said. “Throughout the day, we kept seeing and hearing reports from the cemetery, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. It just shows that some people had a total disrespect for the graves and they need to be prosecuted.”

The Pantagraph confirmed that damage was done, but cemetery officials have been unavailable for comment.

Bloomington police said they took several reports Sunday about the damage.