City officials of Newnan, Ga., erected barriers around Greenville Street Park and blocked off several key streets nearby to help contain and control rallies and counter-demonstrations Saturday by neo-Nazi, white supremacists groups and members of an anti-fascist coalition.
It could be the largest face-off between the groups since clashes at Charlottesville last year that left one person dead.
The National Socialist Movement secured a permit to rally at a park pavillion while the protesters have been given a specific gathering park along nearby Greenville Street, said Hasco Craver, assistant city manager of Newnan, a town of 30,000 people in the Metropolitan Atlanta area, The Newnan Times-Herald reports. The NSM, in obtaining a permit, said they expected from 50 to 100 supporters at the rally.
TVNL Comment: The only way to stop the Neo Nazis is to ignore them. If no press showed up, and the morons at the rally received no coverage, they would slink away like the slime they are.