Ku Klux Klan Clash With Anti-Racism Demonstrators In Virginia
Source: Huffington Post
09/07/2017 11:22 PM AEST | Updated 1 hour ago
Kathryn Snowdon News reporter, The Huffington Post UK
Ku Klux Klan demonstrators were met with counter-protesters in Virginia on Saturday over a dispute regarding the removal of a statue.
Supporters of the white supremacist group marched on Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of General Robert E Lee, who oversaw the pro-slavery Confederate forces in the US civil war.
Police manned the march and KKK supporters were separated from opponents by metal barricades.
It is estimated that there were about 1,000 people at the march and just 50 of those were KKK members, some of whom were carrying Confederate flags
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