A "Free Speech Rally" Saturday in Boston ended shortly after starting when dozens of right-wing rally attendees were met by 40,000 counter-protesters, WCVB reports.
The rally was organized by conservative and libertarian activists who had denounced the neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in Charlottesville a week earlier, USA Today reports.
“We are not associated with any alt-right or white supremacist groups,” the Boston Free Speech Coalition stated. “We are strictly about free speech.” But speakers at the rally were affiliated with Infowars and the alt-right, and ABC News reports members of the KKK had planned to attend.
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