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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCounterprotesters Burn Klansman In Effigy As Georgia White Supremacist Rally Fizzles
Source: Huffington Post
POLITICS 02/03/2019 03:39 am ET Updated 41 minutes ago
Counterprotesters Burn Klansman In Effigy As Georgia White Supremacist Rally Fizzles
Good Night, Alt Right, activists chant.
By Mary Papenfuss
White supremacists were a no-show at a planned rally at a Georgia Confederate monument on Saturday as local authorities cracked down and counterprotesters torched a Klansman in effigy.
The self-described white supremacists, including members of the Ku Klux Klan, had planned to rally on the eve of the Super Bowl some 15 miles east of Atlanta at Stone Mountain Park, where Confederate leaders are etched into a giant rockface. But law enforcement authorities, who had denied the group a permit, shut down the 3,600-acre park, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The Super Bowl is being played Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta,
Though the supremacist rally fizzled, hundreds of counterprotesters several of them armed marched in the nearby town of Stone Mountain Village chanting: Good Night, Alt Right and Goodbye Klan. Protesters held signs reading Death to the KKK, Dixie Be Damned and Sandblast Stone Mountain. The highlight of the rally was the torching of the Klansman figure.
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Counterprotesters Burn Klansman In Effigy As Georgia White Supremacist Rally Fizzles
Good Night, Alt Right, activists chant.
By Mary Papenfuss
White supremacists were a no-show at a planned rally at a Georgia Confederate monument on Saturday as local authorities cracked down and counterprotesters torched a Klansman in effigy.
The self-described white supremacists, including members of the Ku Klux Klan, had planned to rally on the eve of the Super Bowl some 15 miles east of Atlanta at Stone Mountain Park, where Confederate leaders are etched into a giant rockface. But law enforcement authorities, who had denied the group a permit, shut down the 3,600-acre park, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The Super Bowl is being played Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta,
Though the supremacist rally fizzled, hundreds of counterprotesters several of them armed marched in the nearby town of Stone Mountain Village chanting: Good Night, Alt Right and Goodbye Klan. Protesters held signs reading Death to the KKK, Dixie Be Damned and Sandblast Stone Mountain. The highlight of the rally was the torching of the Klansman figure.
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Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rightwing-rally-fizzles-in-georgia-kkk-burned-in-effigy_us_5c5678c7e4b09293b204c473
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Counterprotesters Burn Klansman In Effigy As Georgia White Supremacist Rally Fizzles (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2019
OP
I like that the left wing militias showed up to protect the counter protesters
Downtown Hound
Feb 2019
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. SWEET! Now that's some good news :) (nt)
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)2. i live about 5 minutes away from the park
it was closed yesterday because of this
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)3. Full support of the sentiment
but mobs of any political bent, burning things has me "clutching my pearls".
Initech
(100,144 posts)4. May they all run and hide!
White supremacists and neo Nazis aren't welcome here.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)5. I like that the left wing militias showed up to protect the counter protesters
Too many times reich wingers have showed up with their guns hoping to intimidate leftist protesters. The police are NEVER any help in these situations. It's time we start standing up to them and let them know that we can and will defend ourselves.