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‘Unite the Right ll’ In Washington D.C. Rally Seen Very Low Attendance Counter-protesters Far Outnumber White Nationalist

A year after the white supremacy rally “Unite The Right” in Charlottesville, VA, that fueled violence. Today a small group of white nationalists marched through downtown Washington D.C. on Sunday to a rally in front of the White House according to The New York Times.

The white nationalists were almost immediately met along their march and at the rally by thousands of counter-protesters speaking out against racism and white supremacy. The white supremacy group only numbered about two dozen in Lafayette Square, The New York Times reported.

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The group had been scheduled to have a two-hour rally in the square starting at 5:30 PM, but a spokesman for the National Service confirmed that white supremacists had ended their event by that time.

The organizer of the rally, Jason Kessler addressed his attendees and blamed law enforcement for the lack of supporters who showed up.

“There were a lot of people who were at last year’s rally who are very scared this year,” Kessler said. “They felt like last year they came to express their point of view. They were attacked. And when they fought back, they were overly prosecuted.”

Counter-protesters stood in Lafayette Square shouting at the few white nationalists who were there. Even when it started to rain and lightning entered the sky, protesters stand put with their signs and shirts denouncing racism and anti-Semitism.

A middle school teacher, Anjali Madan Wells told The New York Times, it was “common sense” for her to come out and protest against the white supremacists.

“The idea that people were gathering in my city to spread a message of intolerance,” Wells added that “I talk to my students about standing up for what is right.”

In Charlottesville, where the Unite The Right rally took place last August was filled with counterdemonstrations in Booker T. Washington Park, just a mile from the area downtown where the 32-year-old woman was killed during last year’s counter-protest against white supremacy.

There were Dozens of Virginia State Police officers who formed a barricade that blocked protesters from moving outside a checkpoint. There was no sign of any white supremacists in Charlottesville, so the tensions were only between the counter-protesters and law enforcement.

The rally in Washington D.C. called Unite The Right ll, planned to have 400 people at the rally but was left with a meager showing at best.

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