Tennessee: Murfreesboro rally canceled as counterprotesters outnumber White Lives Matter activists

[spanone]

Downtown Murfreesboro was desolate late Saturday afternoon after hours of chanting and protests that had rippled through the city.

Law enforcement announced plans to remove barriers from the downtown square after white nationalists called off a planned White Lives Matter Rally there. Counterprotesters, who had gathered across the city, ended their events as the rally petered out.

White nationalists were overwhelmingly outnumbered by counterprotesters in Murfreesboro.

About 600 counterprotesters gathered in Murfreesboro to oppose the rally, chanting "Murfreesboro loves," "refugees are welcome here" and "this is what democracy looks like." About 30 white nationalists showed up at the rally in the square in downtown Murfreesboro.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/28/white-lives-matter-rally-murfreesboro-tn-live-updates-shelbyville-tn-stream-video/804380001/

[Aristus]

1. Aw. Were the cowardly little shits afraid of getting their fee-fees hurt?

[Initech]

2. Nazi punks fuck off!

[NBachers]

11. And, in the same vein . . .

[DK504]

24. Thank you for that poster .... I just down loaded it. This will go up next to my distress flag.

[NBachers]

28. PM me and I'll send you some better shots

[sheshe2]

29. Keep picking at the scabs.

They will bleed.

[underpants]

3. 30 people there. 4 here in Richmond

Total wastes.

[Initech]

4. Superior race, my ass!

[mopinko]

5. bots dont show up at protests.

sorry suckers.

[bathroommonkey76]

6. +1

[zentrum]

7. Let's do this over and over

...again.

[TlalocW]

8. Goddammit

NO WONDER I couldn't find any fucking Tiki Torches while I was there in Murfreesboro!

TlalocW

[irisblue]

26. Nazi boys buy their Tiki torches @ Pier 1.

[barbtries]

9. it pisses me off

that the paper is willing to use the white supremacists' benign name for their rally of hate.
hope someone calls them out on that.

[spanone]

10. i agree with you. it normalizes them.

👍🏼

[barbtries]

21. they don't even put it in quotes

i'm tempted to think the editors are racists and white supremacists themselves.

[Tanuki]

15. To his credit, Sen. Lamar Alexander called them out in no uncertain terms:

"While the Constitution gives everyone the right to assemble, the Constitution makes it absolutely clear that we are all Americans without regard to race," Alexander said. "The views of the white nationalists, Nazis, white supremacists and the Klan are wrong, they are un-American, they are not welcome, and we need to be loud and clear about that.”

[barbtries]

22. that's a good thing

i have a fb friend who lives in shelbyville. on her feed she was fretting about these haters coming to her town, but she also had posted a graphic that said "all lives matter."

i didn't comment. she may have muted me since the womens march. the last post i actually saw in my feed from her was a pissed off feed claiming she wasn't supportive of the march, which i attended. so. i don't even know that she didn't vote for trump.

[blueinredohio]

12. Thank you to all the counter protesters who showed up

[Voltaire2]

13. 20-1.

[Loyd]

14. Awwwwwwww!

Did the Brave Defenders of American Whiteness soil themselves again?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. ROFL!!!

😆👍🏾

[lindysalsagal]

16. Good news.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. YAY!!

[MineralMan]

19. They had to cancel, so they could go home

and launder their tightly whities. Somehow, they got soiled.

[dflprincess]

20. If I recall family history correctly, Murfreesboro is where my great-great-grandfather

(of the Second Minnesota) was wounded and mustered out of the Union Army. Glad to here the forces of the Confederacy are still being vanquished there.

[turbinetree]

23. My great -great- great grandfather fought for Union with the

http://tngenweb.org/civilwar/5th-tennessee-cavalry-regiment/

[dflprincess]

30. That is neat link

I had no idea that there were TN regiments who fought for the Union.

On behalf of my great-great-grandfather, I salute your great-great-great-grandfather!

[rocktivity]

25. Here's hoping that the white counterprotestors outnumbered the non-white ones...

rocktivity

[AllaN01Bear]

27. is that a p.c name for raciest . if it walks like a duck , its a duck.

[malaise]

31. Most excellent

Bravo