White Nationalist Rallies For San Fransisco Are Not Permitted
A rally in San Francisco scheduled for Saturday has been replaced with a news conference, while in nearby Berkeley the organizer of an anti-Marxism rally has requested that no one attend Sunday. Officials from the Bay Area cities expressed concern that the rallies could attract extremists and spark violent confrontations. Organizers of both events blamed inadequate security measures for their changed plans.
Mayor Lee earlier said that “people with hate-filled messages” planned on coming to his city for the Crissy Field rally, while Pelosi described it as a “white supremacist rally in the middle of a park for families and children.” After Gibson announced the switch to a news conference Friday, Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener said the Alamo Park event would be an “illegal unpermitted rally,” which followed restrictions placed on Crissy Field event.
Gibson has said in Facebook videos that he’s been unfairly painted as a white supremacist by politicians when he is himself a person of color. He said the Crissy Fields event was for moderates and a way to bring together people who believe in free speech and a way “to build a healthy culture to stand against against antifa, Communists, white supremacists, Nazis.”
It’s not super surprising that one of the most liberal cities in the US would cancel these hateful demonstrations, but that doesn’t mean people won’t still show up this weekend. Stay safe, Fransiscans!