"People need to wake up, recognize that and resist it as fearlessly as it needs to be done," said Carl Dix, a leader of the Refuse Fascism group organizing demonstrations in New York, San Francisco and other cities. The rally organized by the conservative pro-Trump group known as Patriot Prayer — and a counter protest aimed at standing against hate — were previously planned for Sunday. Other demonstrations centered on confederate statues on the state Capitol grounds in West Virginia and in Tampa, Florida; officials in Tampa have voted to relocate theirs. The Florida chapter of the group Save Southern Heritage released a statement Sunday expressing "horror and disbelief" over the deaths in Charlottesville, Virginia, but also blaming news reports for "renewed attacks on Florida's historical assets," including the Tampa Confederate war memorial. Charlottesville descended into violence Saturday after neo-Nazis, skinheads, Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists gathered to "take America back" and oppose plans to remove a Confederate statue in the Virginia college town, and hundreds of other people came to protest the rally. A state police helicopter monitoring the events crashed into the woods, killing two troopers. Trump condemned what he called an "egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides," a statement that Democrats and some of the president's fellow Republicans saw as equivocating about who was to blame. Some of the people protesting Sunday also point to the president and his campaign, saying they gave license to racist hatred that built into what happened in Charlottesville.
Protests, Vigils Around Us Decry White Supremacist Rally
By JENNIFER PELTZ and PHUONG LE, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Sun, 08/13/2017 - 4:21pm
Topics: take america back carl dix refuse fascism new york san francisco patriot prayer capitol west virginia the florida save southern heritage tampa confederate ku klux klan trump democrats republicans virginia tampa florida charlottesville confederate white people group violence president protest
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