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At least 7 stabbed at protest outside California

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — At least seven people were

stabbed Sunday when counter-protesters clashed with

members of right-wing extremists groups that planned

to hold a rally outside the California state Capitol

building in Sacramento, authorities said.

 

California Highway Patrol Officer George Granada said

about 30 members of the Traditionalist Worker Party

were gathering for a rally around noon Sunday when

they were met by about 400 counter-protesters and a

fight broke out.

 

As people tried to leave the area, smaller fights

broke out, Granada said. He said no arrests had been

made as of Sunday afternoon.

 

He said the Capitol remained on lockdown three hours

after the large fight broke out but that things had

calmed down and only about 70 "anti-fascists" remained

in the area.

 

Videos from the melee posted on social media showed

mounted police officers dispersing a group of mainly

youth, some with their faces covered, while some throw

stones toward a man holding a stick and being shielded

by police officers in riot gear.

 

Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said

many other people had cuts, scrapes and bruises.

 

"There was a large number of people carrying sticks

and rushing to either get into the melee or see what

was going on," Harvey said.

 

The victims were all present while a protest took

place, said Sacramento Police spokesman Matt McPhail

but he said it was still unclear whether and how they

were involved.

 

The Traditionalist Workers Party had scheduled and

received a permit to protest at noon Sunday in front

of the Capitol. McPhail said a group showed up to

demonstrate against them.

 

The Southern Poverty Law Center has described TWP as a

group formed in 2015 as the political wing of the

Traditionalist Youth Network, which aims to

"indoctrinate high school and college students into

white nationalism."

 

Matthew Heimbach, chairman of the Traditionalist

Worker Party, told the Los Angeles Times that his

group and the Golden State Skinheads organized the

Sunday rally.

 

 

Heimbach said that in the clash, one of

their marchers had been stabbed in an artery and six

of the counter-protesters had also been stabbed.

 

 

Vice chairman Matt Parrott, who was not present at the

Sacramento rally, blamed "leftist radicals" for

instigating the violence.

 

A message left at a phone number for the

Traditionalist Worker Party was not immediately

returned to The Associated Press.

 

A post recently uploaded to site of the Traditionalist

Youth Network said TWP members planned to march in

Sacramento to protest against globalization and in

defense of their right to free expression.

 

They said they expected to be outnumbered 10-to-1 by counter-

protesters.

 

"We concluded that it was time to use this rally to

make a statement about the precarious situation our

race is in," the Traditionalist Youth Network

statement said.

 

 

"With our folk on the brink of becoming a disarmed,

disengaged, and disenfranchised

minority, the time to do something was yesterday!"

 

 

The clash Sunday follows a confrontation in March

between Ku Klux Klan members and counter-protesters in

Anaheim, California in which three people were

stabbed.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/least-6-stabbed-outside-

california-capitol-205231417.html


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call it what it was neo nazi protesters got their asses kicked... before they could kick anyone else's asses..... america is falling apart at the seams

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23 minutes ago, dMog said:

call it what it was neo nazi protesters got their asses kicked... before they could kick anyone else's asses..... america is falling apart at the seams

California   has been failing apart every since the watts riots in 1965  and then again in rodney king riots and the only reason there was not a 3rd riots was because they set OJ free witch I think reall killed that woman . What do you except from a state were even the police are known to be some the most nasty raciest in the world  .

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Riots happen in every country. But there are some countries which criticize others in the name of riots ( I am not telling the name here but its easy to guess). Any country before criticizing others and behaving like a big brother should actually look into its own territory. 
 

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the last time the neo-nazis and extreme racist groups backed a presidential nominee this way was for  the racist George McGovern,,,trump is also pandering the base instincts of these neo-nazi groups..... hopefully it is this way because TRUMP does know he is doing so ....but he certainly is not yet ratcheting down his rhetoric that appeals to these groups is he!!!!..so one must conclude Trump is doing this intentionally because that is exactly what he is trying to do

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