Police keep vastly outnumbered white nationalists separated from protesters
Washington Times – A small group of white nationalists and many more anti-racism protesters staged dueling rallies Sunday across from the White House, as a phalanx of police officers kept the two camps separated to prevent a repeat of the deadly violence that erupted last year at a white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia.
D.C.-area police officers surrounded the 30 or so attendees of Sunday’s “Unite the Right 2” rally and escorted them at Metro stations, along Pennsylvania Avenue, and to and from Lafayette Square across from the White House. The white nationalists were vastly outnumbered by thousands of counterprotesters who filled the park.
“Show us your faces,” the counterprotesters chanted at the rally-goers, many of whom had concealed their faces behind bandannas or the American flag. “Go home!”
But the “Unite the Right 2” rally fizzled out as darkening clouds threatened rain. Scheduled to last until 7 p.m. Sunday, the white supremacist gathering broke up at about 5:15 p.m., and a cordon of police escorted the attendees from the square.
Amid the significant police presence, one counterprotester was arrested on charges of assaulting someone wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, a police spokeswoman said.
However, someone, presumably police, released pepper spray among counterprotesters at 14th and G streets Northwest, a witness and two photojournalists told The Washington Times. A police spokeswoman said she did not have anything to report on the incident.
Source: US Government Class
