Can someone explain how thousands of people showed up to counter protest a free speech rally consisting of a couple dozen attendees?
How are they mobilizing like this?
How do they not have jobs that they can show up from all over the country?
And better yet, why are they protesting free speech?
From NPR:
A small number of right-wing “Free Speech Rally” demonstrators disbanded early from Boston Common after they were confronted by thousands of counterprotesters shouting anti-Nazi and anti-KKK slogans.
WBUR on Twitter
JUST IN: The attendees of the self-described free speech rally have left the Parkman Bandstand, with a police escort. https://t.co/Nezl3iQPHv
Deborah Becker, a reporter with member station WBUR in Boston, said that “a few dozen” rally attendees were escorted from Parkman Bandstand by police and placed into police vehicles “for their own safety.”
“The counterdemonstrators cheered as the group was escorted out of the area in police wagons,” reports WGBH’s Phillip Martin.
“I didn’t realize how unplanned of an event it was going to be,” Samson Racioppi, a Libertarian candidate for Congress who was expected to speak at the rally, was quoted by WCVB-TV as saying. “I really think it was supposed to be a good event by the organizers, but it kinda fell apart.”
Zeninjor Enwemeka on Twitter
Massive counter protest is still converging on the Boston Common
Chris Hood, an 18-year-old Boston resident who planned to join the Free Speech rally, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying: “The point of this is to have political speech from across the spectrum, conservative, libertarian, centrist.”
“This is not about Nazis. If there were Nazis here, I’d be protesting against them,” Hood said.