40,000 people according to the Police Commissioner. 27 arrests.
"Of the estimated 40,000 attendees, Police Commissioner William Evans said 27 were arrested for charges including assault and battery on police officers. Three people were found wearing ballistic vests, and one of those was armed, Evans added.
“99.9 percent of the people here were here for the right reason, and that is to fight bigotry and hate," Evans said.
“I want to thank everyone who came here to express themselves in such a positive, great manner today,” said Mayor Marty Walsh."
Sounds like a success to me. Everyone got their point across, no real problems.
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antifa was there to keep people from speaking
the free speech advocates were silenced by thousands of thugs
there were only 100 of them and they had a permit
antifa did not
i wonder if cbs fake news will take this video down to keep peepul from seeing the way antifa thugs use violence
BOSTON ― A week after a white supremacist at a rally in Virginia killed one person and injured more than a dozen*others, thousands of counterprotesters in Boston turned out to oppose participants of a self-described “free speech” rally with a message of their own: White supremacy has no place in this country.
Crowds marched to gather at the historic Boston Common park, where the rally was being held, with swarms of people chanting*“make racists afraid again” and*“who defends the Nazis? Trump defends the Nazis!” The rally remained peaceful, and the number of counterprotesters dwarfed the dozens or so of those who came in support of the event, organized by members of the so-called “alt-right.”
On Twitter, President Donald Trump slammed the rally as having “many anti-police agitators.”
There were reportedly up to 27 arrests by late afternoon. There were reports of scuffles between police and protesters as thousands flooded the streets outside Boston Common after the rally.
Just a couple of hours into what was supposed to be a nearly five hour rally, the alt-righters gave up and went home.
[b]The white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville are now beginning to learn an important lesson: Free speech is not consequence-free.*
Internet sleuths quickly identified many of them seen in pictures taken during last weekend’s rally. Some of those identified from Charlottesville*have lost their jobs. And white supremacist Pete Tefft of North Dakota was disowned by family members after they discovered his involvement.
Video taken the day of the rally showed one white supremacist scared shirtless as he tried taking off identifying clothes when confronted by counterprotesters.
“I just came here for the fun, I’m sorry,” he said.
White nationalist Chris Cantwell was featured on a short but enthralling documentary by Vice about the day’s violence.*“We’re not nonviolent,” the self-proclaimed fascist shock jock says in the documentary. “We’ll fucking kill these people if we have to.”
Cantwell was also seen*crying on video, which he said was caused by fear of being arrested over his role in the violent rally.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009
40,000 counter-protestors .. up to 27 arrests, not all counter-protestors.
Overwhelmed the 'free speech' protestors and sent them scurrying home early.
:0) smells like democracy
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Have you seen the videos of that protest? 99% of the people there were common citizens. As a matter of fact, I forget to post this part:
Several verbal confrontations were heard between counterprotesters and rally attendees as they tried to reach the bandstand. Some of the counterprotesters, who said it was their duty to support free speech, were seen helping the rally attendees through the dense crowd..
This is the way protesting should be done. Peacefully. Nobody stopped the organizers from speaking, they even helped them to do it.
How do you know they didn't have a permit? trump put out that pants-on-fire lie about Charlottesville counterprotestors. Here's their permit: https://www.scribd.com/document/3564...val#from_embed
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― Charles Dickens
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they were there to intimidate the speakers
TV cameras showed a group of boisterous counterprotesters on the Common chasing a man with a Trump campaign banner and cap, shouting and swearing at him.
Counterprotesters dressed entirely in black and wore bandannas over their faces. They chanted anti-Nazi and anti-fascism slogans, and waved signs that said: "Make Nazis Afraid Again." Others carried a large banner that read: "SMASH WHITE SUPREMACY."
Police vans later escorted the conservatives out of the area, and angry counterprotesters scuffled with armed officers trying to maintain order.
Members of the Black Lives Matter movement later protested on the Common, where a Confederate flag was burned and protesters pounded on the sides of a police vehicle.
https://www.apnews.com/b50ccbc42d234...counterprotest
Boston's police department tweeted that protesters were throwing bottles, urine and rocks at them and asked people publicly to refrain from doing so.
Truth doesn't play well in Breitbart World.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
40,000 people. 27 arrests. What is the problem here? None. And what problem do you have with the bolded above? It is not only their first amendment right, they are right.
The organizers made it to the stage. With counter protestors help mind you. No one stopped them at all from speaking. Other than themselves.
the only permit that was issued was for the supporters of free speech and it was 4 100 people only
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/b...tions-49276327
u could have answered ur own ? by google but it looks like ur intent is not 2 learn but to work against free speech and free assembly
do u always shill for violent antifa thugs?
btw since u brought up charlotteville did u know va law forbids wearing face masks in public but police did nothing to stop masked antifa and blm thugs while they attacked people on the streets
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