Tensions high at Boston “free speech” rally
By Reuters
20 August 2017 |
6:20 am
Verbal altercations erupted and several demonstrators were arrested as thousands in Boston protest a "Free Speech" rally featuring right-wing speakers, with hundreds of police mobilized to prevent a recurrence of violence that left a woman dead at last week's Charlottesville rally.
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