Thirty participants given the counter demonstrators invited violence. The Traditionalists Worker Party needed to reach out to other groups to hold a unified demonstration. If the TWP's members were more numerous they could carry out a better message with verbal chants to overcome those of their opposition.
There are people critically wounded. That is not a good outcome to the rally. Unfortunately, this will be held against the TWP by those that issue rally permits. There is also legal charges people have to face after the violence. At least there were no guns in the crowd. It would have made the rally more lethal.
The organizers may be held responsible, too. It was not a good rally and there will be consequences. There are rallies held in other states for White Supremacist groups without the violence. They even dress in their their white gowns or robes or whatever they are. Their presence 'hurts' but not physically. It hurts the feelings minorities and others who support the minority populations in the country. Those feelings are real and have an impact. There does not have to be violence to be heard and even understood.
My thoughts are with the victims and not with the cause.
June 27, 2016
By Wesley Yin
There are people critically wounded. That is not a good outcome to the rally. Unfortunately, this will be held against the TWP by those that issue rally permits. There is also legal charges people have to face after the violence. At least there were no guns in the crowd. It would have made the rally more lethal.
The organizers may be held responsible, too. It was not a good rally and there will be consequences. There are rallies held in other states for White Supremacist groups without the violence. They even dress in their their white gowns or robes or whatever they are. Their presence 'hurts' but not physically. It hurts the feelings minorities and others who support the minority populations in the country. Those feelings are real and have an impact. There does not have to be violence to be heard and even understood.
My thoughts are with the victims and not with the cause.
June 27, 2016
By Wesley Yin
Bloody skirmishes broke out (click here) near California’s capitol building in Sacramento on Sunday as self-described “anti-fascists” attempted to break up a white nationalist rally. Ten people were injured, including two who were stabbed and critically injured, according to CNN.
At noon, the Traditionalist Worker Party – described as a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — and the Golden State Skinheads, a local affiliate, were scheduled to hold a rally at noon outside the capitol building.
As they assembled, however, the roughly 30-strong group was met and outnumbered by a wave of several different organizations, including Antifa Sacramento and the Black Hawks, who were present with the stated purpose of preventing the white nationalists from demonstrating....
