Below, everything to know about the upcoming demonstration. This year, the event’s organizers are expecting there to be hundreds of people in attendance - but that’s not taking into consideration the number of people who will show up to counterprotest the rally. (It is unclear what civil rights abuses the organizers think they suffered.) Its purpose, ostensibly, is to “protest civil rights abuses in Charlottesville,” where white supremacists brutally beat a 20-year-old black man and murdered Heather Heyer. ET.Exactly one year after Unite the Right, the violent white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, many of the same white-nationalist, paramilitary, and other right-wing groups are planning once again to come together for a (second-anniversary) rally - this time, in Washington, D.C. More than 1,000 counter protesters have gathered near the White House, rallying against the planned white nationalist rally that's supposed to begin at 5:30 p.m. police are blocking the entrance to the park, keeping counter-protesters at a distance, according to WUSA. White nationalist protesters are inside Lafayette Square Park and Washington, D.C. "Far more media in Lafayette Park than #UniteTheRight2 demonstraters," tweeted Andrea McCarren, WUSA investigative reporter in Washington. "Thousands of counterprotesters are in the area, too, and jeered and heckled the white nationalists as they made their way down the street surrounded by police." The thousands of #ShutDownDC demonstrators cheered upon their exit and are still chanting."įrom the AP: "A group of about 30 white nationalists has marched to a park near the White House for what they call a rally in favor of white civil rights. WUSA reporter Andrea McCarren tweets that, "The 10-15 #UniteTheRight2 demonstrators have left Lafayette Park, under police escort. AKNV8JhmIF- Lorenzo Hall August 12, 2018 Here’s #UnitetheRight2 organizer leading white nationalists to Lafayette Square. white nationalist movement have said they won't attend or have encouraged supporters to stay away," the AP reported. Also, The Associated Press reported that "Kessler's event could be lower than his estimate and likely will be dwarfed by counter-protests. Officials expect about as many as 400 white nationalists, but at least three times that number for the counter-protest. He was involved in last year's Charlottesville protest and got the permit approved for the Washington rally. Jason Kessler is the organizer of today's Washington white nationalists protest.
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You can see updates on the latest from Washington below. Here is a live feed link from WUSA in Washington.
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You can watch a live stream of Washington D.C.s "Unite the Right 2" protest and counter protest here, provided by Fox 5 TV station. Police have erected a maze of barricades to keep the two sides apart, the news agency reports. The protest was scheduled for Lafayette Square Park while the counter-protest is nearby though the counter-protestors "plan to march to Lafayette Square in front of the White House, just before the arrival of the white nationalists," according to the AP. The Associated Press Press is reporting that the number of counter-protesters is "expected to dwarf" white nationalists protesters. protest and counter-protest also comes one day after tensions flared in Charlottesville and on the University of Virginia campus on the one year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville protest. Live stream information and updates are below in this story. "It doesn't matter if we have 14 people or, or 1,400 today," white nationalist rally organizer Jason Kessler told WUSA today. Members have been arriving in the city later this afternoon, making their way to Lafayette Square park but the gathering is sparse - with the AP reporting that "a contingent of about 30 white nationalists" marched down a Washington street toward the White House "surrounded by a protective bubble of police officers and vehicles" while counter-protesters taunted and shouted at them. The white nationalists' protest was expected to last until 7:30 p.m. But the white nationalist rally had little momentum, leaving before 5:30 with rain falling. (ET) – one year after the deadly Charlottesville incident. The 'Unite the Right 2' counter-protest got underway this afternoon in Washington, D.C, hours before a white civil rights rally was scheduled for the city at 5:30 p.m.
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"LATEST - Kessler is OUT of the White House perimeter and back in the Metro system," tweeted WUSA 9 reporter Mike Valerio at 5:20 p.m.
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"#ShutDownDC members continue to stand in the rain." "Unite the Right Rally members have now all left," tweeted WUSA reporter Arielle Buchmann at 5:12 p.m ET. The "Unite the Right 2" rally today in Washington had a low turnout from white nationalists, some 10 to 15 as opposed to 400 once expected, causing counter-protesters to celebrate and taunt with chants of "go home."