WASHINGTON: Protesters Brawl With Pro-Trump Nazis Outside White Supremacist Press Conference [VIDEO]

November 19, 2016 Extremists, Hate Groups

The New York Daily News reports:



A white nationalist conference held at a federal building in Washington D.C.in celebration of “the year of Donald Trump” ignited violent clashes between protesters and attendees of the hate group event. Scores of demonstrators swarmed the conference venue in downtown D.C., Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, on Saturday afternoon shouting “Fascists we will shut you down!”

Photos of the protest show that at least one person was injured, a man reported to be a white nationalist who suffered a bloody gash across his forehead when he entered the crowd of demonstrators. The weekend-long conference was organized by the alt-right think tank National Policy Institute to mark the emergence of the racist alt-right movement by way of the presidential campaign.

“It was a time when more people joined our movement than ever before and when our ideas began invading the mainstream,” reads a description of the event on NPI’s web site. Tickets for the conference ranged from $175 for “Millennial” guests and up to $1,250 for “Patron’s Registration.” Discounted tickets for millennials were sold out on Saturday afternoon. Richard Spencer, NPI’s founder who coined the term “alt-right,” is slated to speak at the conference in addition to five other “important thought leaders in the Alt Right.”

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