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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 11, 2018, 10:36:33 pm
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Hundreds to converge on DC for anniversary of Charlottesville rally
By Emily Birnbaum - 08/11/18 06:06 PM EDT
Hundreds of white nationalists and opponents will stage dueling public protests in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, marking a year since similar demonstrations turned deadly last August in Charlottesville, Va.
White nationalists for months have been fighting among themselves over how to stage their August 12 "Unite the Right 2" rally, even while a broad coalition of civil rights activists have coordinated expansive counter-protests.
The permit for the "white civil rights" rally estimates there will be up to 400 attendees, but experts warned The Hill this is likely overblown.
"[These neo-Nazi groups] are pretty famous for overestimating their turnout and backing down when it turns out that there’s a really massive response to what they’re doing," Mark Lance, a professor of justice and peace at Georgetown University, told The Hill. "So it would not surprise me if it was a very small turnout."
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http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/401165-unite-the-right-rally-to-bring-hundeds-to-dc-on-sunday (http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/401165-unite-the-right-rally-to-bring-hundeds-to-dc-on-sunday)
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3 men arrested in Charlottesville ahead of ‘Unite the Right’ rally anniversary
Posted 5:41 pm, August 11, 2018, by Web Staff, Updated at 06:07PM, August 11, 2018
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Three men have been arrested in Charlottesville on Saturday as the city braces for the one-year anniversary of the deadly "Unite the Right" rally on Sunday.
Charlottesville officials said that as of 4:30 p.m. on Saturday three men were arrested "inside and in proximity to the security area in downtown Charlottesville." ... More at WTVR (https://wtvr.com/2018/08/11/arrests-downtown-charlottesville-saturday-aug-11/)
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I wonder who Antifa will try to beat up on this time?
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So far, they've beat up on an NBC news crew.
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So far, they've beat up on an NBC news crew.
Only NBC? Typical under achievers. They really aren't trying that hard.
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So, of the three guys, they say nothing about the guy on the left except that he was in the security area, the enormous guy in the middle in the tie-dyed shirt was buying razors, which is a prohibited item, and the guy on the left was drunk and wandering in the security area.