White nationalists arrive in DC to sea of counterprotesters

[iluvtennis]

https://wtop.com/dc/2018/08/white-nationalists-counterprotesters-converge-in-dc/slide/12/

Several participants in the "Unite the Right 2" rally, led by organizer Jason Kessler, marched through D.C. from the Foggy Bottom Metro station, outnumbered by chanting counterprotesters downtown.

White nationalists who arrived in downtown D.C. Sunday afternoon for a planned rally marking the one-year anniversary of a deadly gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, were met by throngs of shouting counterprotesters.

Several participants in the “Unite the Right 2” rally, led by organizer Jason Kessler, marched through D.C. from the Foggy Bottom Metro station around 3 p.m. The group is heading to Lafayette Square for a rally planned set to begin at 5:30 p.m. and go until 7:30 p.m.

The white nationalists got on the public transit system from its Vienna station, where they took a private car with a police escort they obtained through a permit. Previously, Metro said there were no plans to provide a “special train” for participants, but would coordinate with other authorities to ensure that Metro riders were kept safe.

The roughly two-dozen Unite the Right participants quietly walked through D.C.’s streets with the help of a police escort. Counterprotesters surrounded the white nationalists, many of whom carried signs and chanted, often slinging curses and expletives.

Earlier, hundreds of counterprotesters, including DC United Against Hate, New York Black Lives Matter and the Answer Coalition, gathered in Freedom Plaza, revving up the crowd with chants of “Fight back” and “No KKK, no fascist USA.” They are meeting the white nationalists around Freedom Plaza, McPherson Square, Farragut Square and Lafayette Square. (One rally is planned for the 900 block of 16th Street Northwest, not far from Lafayette.)

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[Initech]

1. I wish that their private metro car had gone off a cliff.

But drowning them out is the next best thing! Fuck white supremacists!

[iluvtennis]

2. +++ agree

[kwassa]

3. There was no private Metro car.

The union said no way, and that was that.

[Hortensis]

4. 0 posts on Kavanaugh, possible end of progressivism.

Good job, anti-government forces.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. K&R! Well done!

Both the post and the turnout! Thanks for all the great pix!