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2017-08-28 Home Front: Politix
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100s or more than a 1000 antifascist protesters fascists march in San Fran, face off vs riot police after alt-right free speech group canceled rally
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 | The Daily Mail added their own reporting to the Ay Pee feed. Who wrote which bit is pretty clear. |
[DailyMail] - Hundreds of people showed up to demonstrate against alt-right group Patriot Prayer at Alamo Square park which had planned a gathering in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge but then canceled the event
- Patriot Prayer planned to instead hold a press conference but this was again downgraded and an organizer for the pro-Trump group simply spoke in suburban Pacifica with a just handful of supporters
- However counter-protesters showed up at Alamo Square park anyway leading to a number of scuffles breaking out among the crowd and one arrest
'My hope is to be able to talk to normal citizens without all the extremists,' Gibson, who identifies as Japanese American, said at the news conference.
Other speakers included African Americans, a Latino and a Samoan American. Several said they support Donald Trump and want to join with moderates to promote understanding and free speech.
The pivots by the group didn't deter more than 1,000 left-wing counter-protesters from descending on Alamo Square park, where they suspected right-wing supporters still might show up.
'San Francisco as a whole, we are a liberal city and this is not a place for hate or any sort of bigotry of any kind,' Bianca Harris said.
| Mx Harris -- it doesn't do to make assumptions based on given name in this context -- is deep in 1984 territory here. |
'I think it's a really powerful message that we're sending to people who come here to try to spew messages of hate that it's just not welcome in this city.'
| A powerful message, yes. The rest of that sentence is just a series of falsehoods. |
Police closed the park early in the day and looked on in riot gear as the demonstrators gathered around its perimeter waving signs condemning white supremacists and chanting, 'Whose streets? Our streets!' Hundreds of others took to the streets in the Castro neighborhood.
"Not nobody else's streets!"
The city has banned a long list of items from the park, including baseball bats, dogs and skate boards. People at the park are also not allowed to cover their faces with scarves or bandanas.
| That last was less than completely enforced, according to the photos. |
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