Neo-Nazis and anti-fascist protesters hold competing rallies in Kentucky [View all]

[Equinox Moon]

More than 150 neo-Nazis and white supremacists, many of them armed, staged a rally on Saturday in a Kentucky county that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.

The demonstrators were met by more than 100 self-described “anti-fascist” protesters, who chanted and jeered and waved a poster of a prominent far right activist getting punched in the face. There was, however, no violence.

Residents of the town of Pikeville, which has a population of about 7,000, said the demonstration perplexed and infuriated them. Both the neo-Nazis and the anti-fascists appeared to be largely from elsewhere.

Nathan Sesco, a military veteran, said he was angry that the protest might damage eastern Kentucky’s reputation in the eyes of outsiders, making Pikeville look like a “hate town”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/30/neo-nazis-anti-fascist-protesters-kentucky-pikeville

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"many of them armed" and that was okay? Amazing there was no violence.

The picture of the Kentucky Swat-Riot police with their bellies poofing out is... well... stereotypical American. You don't see photos in other countries of overweight Riot Cops! See link for 3rd photo down. Ha!