POLICE/PROTESTS/RACISM: “Law-enforcement officials in Tennessee are gearing up for two white nationalist rallies this Saturday [10-28-17], preparing expansive security measures and calling for community members to avoid the events by groups that marched in Charlottesville earlier this summer.
‘White Lives Matter’ events will be held in Shelbyville, Tenn., a city of 21,000, and Murfreesboro, a city of 132,000, both south of Nashville.
Groups sponsoring the marches include the League of the South, which calls for the South’s secession from the U.S., and the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi Party. Both participated in the August demonstration in Charlottesville, where a young woman was killed when a Nazi sympathizer drove a car into a crowd of protesters.
After other violent clashes at several events involving white nationalists around the country, state and local officials have been putting in place strict rules and heavy security to maintain order. To reduce the possibility of violence, local law-enforcement officials are stressing the importance of keeping participants and counter demonstrators apart…
In Tennessee, Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, won’t deploy the state’s National Guard for the rallies, but state law enforcement will be in close contact with local police, according to his spokeswoman Jennifer Donnals.”
-Cameron McWhirter, “Tennessee Towns Heighten Security Ahead of White Nationalist Rallies,” The Wall Street Journal online, Oct. 27, 2017 05:30am