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Alt-Right San Franscisco And Berkeley White Supremacist Rallies CANCELED And MOVED To Alamo Square
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3:47Now PlayingAlt-Right San Franscisco And Berkeley White Supremacist Rallies CANCELED And MOVED To Alamo Square
Right-wing rallies in limbo in San Francisco and Berkeley. The leader of a right-wing group that had planned a Saturday rally at Crissy Field in San Francisco called off the event Friday just as local and federal officials put the finishing touches on a slate of security measures designed to head off the kind of violence seen this month in Charlottesville, Va. The announcement — which suggested the event had become a moving target, at the mercy of the whims of a fringe group — prompted the National Park Service to lift a batch of restrictions it had planned around Crissy Field on Saturday. Businesses in the Presidio can open as usual. But Joey Gibson of Patriot Prayer said the group will instead hold a “press conference” at 2 p.m. Saturday at Alamo Square Park in the Western Addition.
But it left San Francisco leaders scrambling to come up with a plan to keep the peace in Alamo Square, heading off potential clashes between the right-wing group and counterprotesters.
On Facebook Live, Gibson said the same speakers and bands who were going to appear at Crissy Field would be at Alamo Square Park. But while he was granted a special-event permit for the Presidio, he does not have one for his Gibson and other supporters appearing with him on the Facebook feed said they’d changed their plans because of fears that violent protesters using “black bloc” tactics would attend their Crissy Field rally. They also said the speakers and bands scheduled to perform at the rally had been “harassed.”
“I am calling on (city officials) to denounce antifa publicly,” said Will Johnson, an event organizer, referring to antifascist protesters who have clashed with right-wing activists in recent months at events in Berkeley and around the country. “We could have had this rally, and it would have been peaceful. Not a single person wants to fight. They are bringing the violence.” The organizers blamed statements by Mayor Ed Lee and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, for creating a hostile climate against them. Both politicians had called on the National Park Service to deny the group a permit for what Pelosi called a “white supremacist rally.”
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