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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,009 posts)
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 08:38 PM Aug 2018

Anti-hate protesters far outnumber white supremacists as groups rally near White House

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 rally’s 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 year’s 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 demonstration’s 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 year’s 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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anti-hate-protesters-far-outnumber-white-supremacists-as-groups-rally-near-white-house/ar-BBLOXUf?li=BBnb7Kz

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Anti-hate protesters far outnumber white supremacists as groups rally near White House (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2018 OP
Fake news! canetoad Aug 2018 #1
32 if you count the schiztophrenic guy with the sign "One manifestation, One vote!" marble falls Aug 2018 #2
LOL funny canetoad Aug 2018 #4
Here's how they deal with it in Luxembourg.... marble falls Aug 2018 #6
If your going to throw out a joke about schizophrenia... NCTraveler Aug 2018 #5
I know. I was of two minds about posting it. marble falls Aug 2018 #7
I don't like this part marylandblue Aug 2018 #3

canetoad

(17,164 posts)
4. LOL funny
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 09:18 PM
Aug 2018

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.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
3. I don't like this part
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 09:16 PM
Aug 2018

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."

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