On the 22nd of September, a KKK-affilated faction of the Aryan Nations
Nazi group showed up at Lincoln Park in NE Washington, intending to
march to the US Capitol. They would not have made it without massive
police protection, and barely got to the Capitol as it was.
The "National Socialist Party of America" also showed up, but both
factions of Nazis, even with help from or co-membership in the Klan, did
not exceed 16 hatemongers or so. Against them were arrayed hundreds,
maybe as many as 1,000 opponents of their message of hate, racism, and
holocaust denial.



At least tfive times, anti-racist activists raced ahead of the DC police
and set arm-locked street barricades, forcing the cops and thus the
Nazis to stop. The first two times, cops read mass arrest warnngs and
counterprotesters leap frogged one block or a little more and set a new
blockade. At the 5th street blockade, protesters called the cops on
their bluff, and they chose not to attempt a mass arrest. Instead, the
cops used horses to forcibly push through the crowd. This was repeated
at subsequent blockades, leading to some rather rough pushing but no
arrests.



At 3ed st NE, US Capitol Police joined the fray, looking like
stormtroopers in all-black riot gear. Even this did not keep anti-racist
activists from retaking the streets, and the Capitol Police abandoned
the effort to force all counterprotesters to the sidewalk. Instead, all
the cops simply decided to push when blocked in an effort to keep
moving.



At the Reflecting Pool at 3ed st NW, the Nazis entered a fenced-off
protest pen, had a very short rally, and fled to their waiting bus. The
driver of the bus turned out to be African-American. No doubt the bus
company was not told what kind of garbage they were going to be hauling
in that fancy bus!

The Nazi (and Klan as well) should try doing this without all those cops sometime like everyone else does. All the First Amendment means is that it is unconstitutional to arrest them for being Nazis, nowhere does it require any jurisidiction to provide police protection, nor does it bind parties outside the government.