"Not saying you are wrong about them having permits but this is the first I am hearing that. If you wouldn't mind, can you send me a link to the information?"
This is from WAPO's fact checker.
http://tinyurl.com/ycxro6mk
"Cities and law enforcement keep pro/anti protesters apart all the time, even in public places. With history proving otherwise, I can't buy into the claim that they could not keep the two groups separated basically because they were in public places and in a public park."
It's not that they couldn't keep them apart, they just can't deny one group the use of public space just because the other group has a permit. I don't know what the authorities had planned to keep them apart - they never really made it to the park where the rally was to be held, all of the action was out in the streets.
"BTW, did you get a chance to view the video I posted which clearly showed the anti-protesters were clearly the first to attack that specific group of protesters in that one short clip?"
I've seen that and others, but it's impossible to tell at what point that particular incident happened. Was it at the very beginning, or was it after a number of clashes had already taken place? The question of which side actually started the violence hasn't been answered. but I still feel it was the supremacists who incited it by being there in the first place. Their actions of the previous night were intended to intimidate - marching by torchlight, chanting antisemitic slogans, and playing Nazi are not the behavior of a group that is there to protest peacefully.
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