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A short and sparsely attended white nationalist rally broke up late Sunday as police ushered the attendees into white vans and drove them away from a crowd of thousands of angry protesters in downtown Washington.
The rallys end followed a day in which large numbers of police officers sought for the most part successfully to keep the two sides from clashing in a repeat of last years deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
The small band of demonstrators at the Unite the Right 2 rally, who numbered about two dozen, were being transported to the Rosslyn Metro station, a Fairfax County official said. From there, they would take a train to Vienna, where they would be greeted by county police who could escort them to their cars if necessary.
The demonstrations message of white civil rights, delivered in an overwhelmingly liberal city where African Americans outnumbered whites at the last Census count, was angrily denounced by those who flocked to Lafayette Square.
A brief speech by rally organizer Jason Kessler also one of the lead organizers of last years rally was drowned out by the cries and chants of those massed around him. Many in the crowd of counterprotesters wore the signature black masks, helmets and body armor of the Antifa movement, which clashed violently with white supremacists in Charlottesville.
Scores of police officers kept them separated from the white nationalist demonstrators and ultimately drew the renewed anger of the masked counter-protesters after supporters of the white supremacist rally were long gone from downtown D.C.
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canetoad
(17,164 posts)I saw a report that there were 'about 30' of them.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)canetoad
(17,164 posts)Seriously marblefalls, these guys are showing themselves to be the utter craven cowards that they are. I wish there was a way to make them pay for the stepped-up police and security presence.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)It better be a good one.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)They shouldn't go after police like that.
"Scores of police officers kept them separated from the white nationalist demonstrators and ultimately drew the renewed anger of the masked counter-protesters after supporters of the white supremacist rally were long gone from downtown D.C."