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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoadblocks, weapons bans as Boston braces for 'Free Speech' rally
Source: Reuters
#U.S. AUGUST 18, 2017 / 11:37 AM / AN HOUR AGO
Roadblocks, weapons bans as Boston braces for 'Free Speech' rally
Scott Malone
3 MIN READ
BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston officials are planning road blockades and even banning food vendors from the historic Boston Common as they step up security around a "Free Speech" rally on Saturday featuring right-wing speakers, aiming to avoid a repeat of last weekend's violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia.
Some 500 police officers will be on the streets around the popular tourist destination. They are planning to close some roadways to vehicles, mindful of the car attacks that killed a woman in Charlottesville and 13 in an attack in Barcelona on Thursday.
"We all know the tragedy that happened in Barcelona. That only makes us more vigilant," said Boston Police Commissioner William Evans, who was the department's second-in-command during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Saturday's rally has drawn intense concern from city and state officials following the violence in Charlottesville, when white supremacists at a "Unite the Right" rally fought in the streets with anti-racism protesters. A woman was killed at that event when a man said to have neo-Nazi sympathies crashed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, injuring another 19 people.
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Roadblocks, weapons bans as Boston braces for 'Free Speech' rally
Scott Malone
3 MIN READ
BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston officials are planning road blockades and even banning food vendors from the historic Boston Common as they step up security around a "Free Speech" rally on Saturday featuring right-wing speakers, aiming to avoid a repeat of last weekend's violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia.
Some 500 police officers will be on the streets around the popular tourist destination. They are planning to close some roadways to vehicles, mindful of the car attacks that killed a woman in Charlottesville and 13 in an attack in Barcelona on Thursday.
"We all know the tragedy that happened in Barcelona. That only makes us more vigilant," said Boston Police Commissioner William Evans, who was the department's second-in-command during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Saturday's rally has drawn intense concern from city and state officials following the violence in Charlottesville, when white supremacists at a "Unite the Right" rally fought in the streets with anti-racism protesters. A woman was killed at that event when a man said to have neo-Nazi sympathies crashed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, injuring another 19 people.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-protests-boston-idUSKCN1AY1RX
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Roadblocks, weapons bans as Boston braces for 'Free Speech' rally (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2017
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sheshe2
(83,834 posts)1. Boston Strong
Phoenix61
(17,009 posts)2. Awesome!
Glad they are taking this serious. If you can't take backpacks, large purses, drinks, full-size umbrellas etc into sporting event venues, they shouldn't have a problem with them not being allowed in for this. I mean, it's a rally to discuss free speech, right?
maxsolomon
(33,347 posts)3. Boston has its own long history of Racial and Ethnic strife
But I'd bet they'll come together to reject White Supremacists.
Warpy
(111,305 posts)4. This picture from 1976 shamed the city
along with video of punks throwing rocks at school buses full of little kids on the nightly news. A few bad politicians rode the wave of Southie hate into office but they didn't last long, and a few long time conservative pols who tried to gain greater power were defeated within a couple of years.
It lasted as long as it did in 1976 because it was mostly home grown. The hate rally this weekend will feature outsiders and Boston can get pretty clannish about that. The cops know it will be a Donnybrook. They're just trying to prevent people from being maimed or killed. Good luck to them and the Red Sox.