Protesters met with jeers by crowd with guns in Nevada city
Source: Associated Press
Updated 5:21 pm CDT, Monday, August 10, 2020
MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — Several dozen Black Lives Matter demonstrators at a weekend protest in rural Nevada were greeted by a far larger group of counter-demonstrators, including some bearing military-style weapons and tactical gear, but a sheriff who had made controversial remarks earlier about the racial injustice movement reported no arrests or serious incidents.
The clash of rallies Saturday came days after Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley attracted national attention for telling the local library not to bother calling 911 for help after board members publicly considered a statement opposing “all forms of racism, hatred, inequality and injustice” and the line “We support #Black Lives Matter.”
The library abandoned plans to issue the diversity statement and the sheriff backed off, saying deputies would continue to respond to all 911 calls.
Plans to organize a demonstration against racial injustice that spread on social media spawned competing campaigns supporting Coverley and inviting supporters to back sheriff’s deputies.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Protesters-met-with-jeers-by-crowd-with-guns-in-15473425.php
BLM protest in Douglas County draws hundreds of counter protesters, militia
A first-person account
By Kelsey Penrose -August 9, 2020
BLM and anti-BLM protesters clash in Gardnerville, Nevada on August 8, 2020 - photo: Kelsey Penrose
I have deep roots in Carson Valley. I learned to swim at the Carson Valley Aquatic Center, where I was taught to monkey-tree-rocketship my way through the water. My mother taught special education at Gardnerville Elementary School. Our secret family cheesecake recipe actually came from Barbara Storke of the old Storke Dairy. My first job as a journalist was with the Record Courier. I have never felt unsafe in Douglas County, until today.
Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley made national headlines when he issued a public letter to the Douglas County Library Board after they proposed support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In the letter, Coverley threatened to ignore emergency calls for assistance.
Though Coverley later stated he would respond to calls for assistance, many across the country were outraged.
In Carson City, a group of about 30-40 people, most of them young and many of them juveniles, have been peacefully protesting and marching in front of the Nevada Legislature every Saturday this summer. It was these protesters, joined together with other regional Black Lives Matter movements, who organized a peaceful protest in Douglas County to support the library and express their outrage at the sheriff’s statement.
More:
https://sierranevadaally.org/2020/08/09/blm-protest-in-douglas-county-draws-hundreds-of-counter-protesters-militia/
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Grab their guns, of course! They always feel so much safer facing off against unarmed protestors when they have their trusty semi-automatic weapons. 
Cowards, the entire lot.
