Monday 13 August 2018

Meager 'Unite the Right 2' rally exposes limits of white supremacist movement.

Protestors march against the far-right’s Unite the Right rally August 12, 2018 in Washington, DC on the one-year anniversary of deadly violence at a similar protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo: Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — A handful of members of right wing, white supremacist and neo Nazi groups holding a Sunday rally near the White House were vastly outnumbered by massive crowds of counter protesters.

Dubbed “Unite the Right 2,” the white supremacist rally was organized by Jason Kessler, a self-described “white civil rights” activist who held a similar event in Charlottesville, Va., on this date last year. While Kessler’s prior rally sparked massive clashes that fueled attention towards emboldened right wing groups, his second event failed to draw a crowd of supporters.

A young woman named Heather Heyer died during the Charlottesville rally when a neo Nazi sympathizer drove his car into a crowd of protesters. Numerous others were injured and a pair of police officers also died during a helicopter crash while they were patrolling the event. Due to the past violence, Washington braced for a similar situation on Sunday with numerous local businesses closing and officials developing a plan for the rally participants to be escorted to the event’s location in Lafayette Park with police protection.



By Hunter Walker.
Full story at Yahoo News.

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