Shortly before 3:50 p.m, Boston Police reported:
BPD confirming rocks being thrown at officers on Tremont at West.
Shortly after 5 p.m., Karen Zgoda reported police were using pepper spray in Downtown Crossing:
Mace being deployed avoid Downtown Crossing bring milk for your eyes cc @universalhub pic.twitter.com/hRykbjO0Su
— KarenZgoda (@karenzgoda) August 19, 2017
Boston Police report a total of 33 arrests for the day.
Scene at Downtown Crossing about 20 min ago. Circumstances unclear. Let's all stay classy and peaceful. @universalhub @bostonpolice #Boston pic.twitter.com/gZ6NnULo2B
— Joshua Fabian (@JFabi) August 19, 2017
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Rolls Eyes
By anon
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 11:17am
In other words, she utterly failed to note that a huge to-do on the common would mean that (gasp) she might have to plan ahead, leave early, take a different route, etc.
This are grownup skills that we all have to learn called "paying attention" and "planning ahead".
Your friend is gonna be in real trouble
By lbb
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 1:42pm
Your friend is gonna be in real trouble when she first encounters this thing called "snow".
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
By anon
Sat, 08/19/2017 - 9:24pm
The good was the restraint shown by the police who were subject to taunts, spit on and had bottles and rocks thrown at them.
The bad was that a handful of masked clowns ruined what was a well behaved and peaceful crowd of thousands.
The ugly was when masked clowns dressed in black attacked an elderly couple whose only crime was holding a large American flag.
"ruined"
By lbb
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 1:47pm
You're not Miss Connie and this isn't Romper Room and you don't get to decide what constitutes "ruined". You may feel free to go pout in your corner, but don't pretend that someone like you, whose dearest wish was for this action to fail, get to determine with your sour attitude that it "failed".
While I am extremely unhappy
By anon
Sat, 08/19/2017 - 9:48pm
While I am extremely unhappy that the afterparty turned out like this (why couldn't we have all gone home after the 'protestors' fled the bandstand?)- I still think this counts as a win.
40-ish arrests (latest WCVB number) off as many as 40000 total, compared to 21 in last night's North End shenanigans, which I bet was a lot less than 40000 people.
More importantly- 0 dead, and no reports I've seen yet indicate anyone hurt badly enough to be hospitalized. After all is said and done, those are the numbers I really care about here. It could easily have been worse- there were a lot of angry people out there.
No one died?
By MatthewC
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 10:35am
That's the barometer by which we measure success when it comes to protests nowadays? Jesus H... This country is truly doomed.
Names and charges
By adamg
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 1:06am
BPD has released a list of the 33 people arrested and the charges they face. Mostly stuff like disturbing the peace, but a few were arrested on more serious charges, such as assault and battery with a knife.
"Drinking alcohol in public."
By jmeltzer
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 7:24am
Right.
Clowns
By TJ
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 7:45am
The number of people commenting on this one blog alone who perceive the contrasting percentages of people arrested on either side as some sort of success rate is sad. Some of these scumbags were throwing bottles of urine at cops; I would be willing to bet that shear numbers prevented dozens more from being arrested. This began as a free speech rally, only when the media claimed it would be attended by zounds of nazis and other white supremacists did the frenzy begin. You've given them way more attention than they deserve, free speech is still a constitutional right, Trump is still president, and y'all are still butt-hurt. Cheers!
Stop with the free speech nonsense
By peter
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 9:17am
It was called a free speech rally but the announced speakers were all white nationalist or similar types. One was famous for beating Trump protestors with a club.
https://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/free...
Whether you
By TJ
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 9:44am
like it or not, they have the right to speak freely their vile opinions...
The First Amendment...
By MatthewC
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 10:46am
...exists to protect speech that is offensive, and sometimes hateful. Those who use violence to drive their pony home should be arrested and thrown is jail. But your comment makes it seem like you believe only the left has the right to free speech. However, perhaps I'm wrong, so I'll give you the chance to clarify your comments.
Grow up...
By MatthewC
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 10:33am
First, move south of the Mason-Dixon Line if you're going to say "y'all". Second, you're part of the reason this country is so divided. Wagging your finger and laughing while you call anti-Trump people "butt hurt" is immature and childish.
Answer these questions (I'm sure you won't...but try to humor me): how do you feel knowing that millions of white supremacists help carry Trump to the White House? How do you feel knowing that David Duke was and is one of his biggest supporters?
Adam, please stop...
By MatthewC
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 10:28am
It's almost like you giggle every time you type the word "Nazi". It's rather childish. Actual Nazis kicked off the bloodiest war in history. Actual Nazis murdered millions of people through industrialized genocide. No matter what they say, these angry little shit stain "white nationalist" asshats will never see see their twisted dream come to fruition.
What if Charlottesville hadn't happened? Would the left have actually allowed "alt-right" protesters to speak? No, they wouldn't. Stop sanctifying the left just because you're one of them. They're no lovers of the first amendment, and they're perfectly willing to show us. Just watch how I'll probably be ganged up on just for daring to not march in lock step with people like you. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Boston made a show of unity against hate. But don't put the counter protesters on a pedestal. Given the right circumstances, things could have gone much differently.
Ok let the snark and mouth foaming commence :)
The comments are always the
By hollydollydoo
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 11:00am
The comments are always the most interesting parts of these posts. Adam, I love that you've made this site, a legitimate, viable source of local news.
I also understand your politics. Surprisingly, you seemed to have published comments that don't agree with your own view. That's appreciated, since 9 out of 10 times, you don't post my comments, even though they are relevant and (my bias) insightful.
I am glad that others read this site who are not necessarily pink-hatted, lily-white antifa's. I hope we get to the point where the left quits trying to bring the sitting president down, and focuses their energy on working together to solve the country's problems. Am so sick of this nonsense. It is unproductive, and destructive.
So get over yourselves, Lefties! Let's be glad that no one was seriously hurt during this yesterday, and move forward. I didn't love BHO either, but accepted him as the president for 8 years. Why can't you all do the same?
MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting...
By MatthewC
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 11:54am
You say you accepted Obama for 8 years, yet you can't even say his name. In fact, you still insist on emphasizing his middle name. What, his birth cirtificate wasn't good enough for you?
Part of healing the country is getting the moron you worship out of office. He's toxic. And if you support him, so are you.
"Get over yourselves Lefties"
By CGrey
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 2:06pm
"Get over yourselves Lefties"?!
Your President made excuses for the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. Not only we lefties, but both Presidents Bush, John McCain, MITCH McCONNELL (!), Paul Ryan and every other prominent Republican felt it necessary to renounce his statements.
A little background for you. You're welcome.
No one has stopped the Right fro speaking on the Common
By bibliotequetres...
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 12:13pm
Not the Tea Party back in, I think, 2010.
Not the gun rights freaks a few months ago.
Not the Libertarian twerps who marched around with a gadsden flag on July 3.
I'm sure there are others, as well, but you can look that up.
And the "left" couldn't get anywhere near the bandstand-- Medlar's group of jokers could have stayed out there a few more hours & still been escorted out, if they had wished. They didn't.
If Charlottesville hadn't happened ...
By Ron Newman
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 8:11am
this weekend would have been like the last time these losers came to Boston Common in May. Most of us ignored them then and found better things to do with a Saturday afternoon. We changed our mind after Charlottesville and decided that a show of overwhelmingly superior numbers was needed this time.
Here's a tip
By anon
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 9:43am
If you don't like him bringing up Nazis, then tell your friends to stop wearing emblems associated with Nazism, Fascism, and White Supremacy when they march around.
Shit, even Godwin himself tweeted out "these are Nazis! Call them Nazis!"
When these twits stop self-identifying as Nazis, perhaps people will stop calling them Nazis?
I am flummoxed by your
By RoseMai
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 1:37pm
I am flummoxed by your "actual Nazi" line. A Nazi is a Nazi, whether or not they happened to live in a time that allowed them to murder people over it. History repeats itself- assuming that modern Nazis will "never see their twisted dream come to fruition" is idiotic. The only way that we can make sure it never happens again is by speaking up LOUDLY and OFTEN whenever necessary. I'm sure I don't have to quote Martin Niemöller's First They Came poem to you, but it has been very relevant lately.
I also have to say, painting the other side with a broad brush has got to stop. So many people on both sides are saying "the left loves this", "the right is full of this". You cannot define an entire group with such broad generalizations. I would love to see your facts around how the "left" are "no lovers of the first amendment". What kind of idiotic rhetoric is that? I'm sure some fringe people on both sides have said stupid things, but I have never met anyone that opposes the first amendment, and I'm willing to bed most people can say the same thing.
Boston Police release names of the 33 arrested
By anon
Sun, 08/20/2017 - 3:00pm
http://bpdnews.com/news/2017/8/19/nwez3w61jv5rm1ub...
Well, except a 15 year old girl from Cambridge (Delinquent to wit Assault & Battery by Means of Dangerous Weapon (2 counts), Delinquent to wit Disorderly Conduct).
Wow, the KKK is recruiting them young.
Huh?!
By jonbowen
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 1:15pm
You think KKK recruits were arrested?! As if there were any there?! Wow!
Which side were the trouble
By anon
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 10:25am
Which side were the trouble makers on? Does anyone know?
An organizer of the march describes the people who were arrested
By Ron Newman
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 9:42pm
and calls for the charges to be dropped against them:
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