Right-wing group cancels San Francisco rally

[Princess Turandot]

Source: AP

3:45 p.m.

A right-wing group has canceled a “freedom rally” scheduled for Saturday in San Francisco that civic leaders had worried would turn violent.

Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson announced Friday that the group would instead hold a news conference at a San Francisco city park Saturday to explain what he called the failure of police and elected officials to keep the group safe.

He said the group would also join an unpermitted anti-Marxist rally across the bay in a Berkeley city park on Sunday that’s hosted by a transsexual Trump supporter.

Mayors in both cities say the two groups invite hate.

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Couldn't they have just said that the size of the good people crowd in Boston terrified them?

[Zoonart]

1. HAHAHAHA....

No Nazi shit show after all.
Great plan pays off.

[Julian Englis]

2. Transsexual tRump supporter? n/t

[Downtown Hound]

3. Some people are really into being degraded. n/t

[jmowreader]

11. Caitlyn Jenner is one

I'm sure you could find...oh, a couple dozen of them, if you looked hard enough.

[BittyJenkins]

4. I think it was the poop

threat!!!!! We need to remember this lesson! I do love SF, born in the South Bay, living in the North Bay. Go Puppies!

[spiderpig]

5. They wanted to provoke something?

Don't even think about it.

[Harry Also]

6. Well how about that

The crazy stuff was always going to go down in Berkeley anyway.

[Eugene]

7. The Latest: SF mayor doesn't trust group canceling rally

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: SF mayor doesn't trust group canceling rally

Associated Press 25 August 2017

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on conservative free speech rallies in San Francisco and Berkeley (all times local):

6:30 p.m.

San Francisco's mayor says he doesn't trust a right-wing group that says it's canceling a rally in the city on Saturday.

Mayor Ed Lee said Friday night that despite organizers saying it's called off, they have not cancelled the event in writing so the city is proceeding as though it's still happening.

Lee says, "We don't trust this group. I never have from the beginning."

He also urged people not to show up at the news conference the group plans to hold instead of the rally, but said police would be there and at the rally site.

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Read more: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/latest-dog-walkers-welcome-conservatives-poop-162316955--politics.html

[FakeNoose]

8. I think they couldn't find any Nazis to attend the rally

Nobody answered the ads for "paid" supporters.

[Hieronymus]

9. Guess the dog poo worked.

[MrModerate]

10. Marxists? In Berkeley?

Not including tenured professors, I'd say the Marxist count in Berkeley is probably higher than average, but still microscopic.

[Doug the Dem]

12. Aww, how shitty for them!