A large crowd of people march towards the Boston Commons to protest the Boston Free Speech Rally. Photo: ReutersTens of thousands of people took to the streets of Boston on Saturday (local time) to protest a "free speech" rally featuring far-right speakers a week after a woman was killed at a Virginia white-supremacist demonstration. Rally organisers had invited several far-right speakers who were confined to a small pen that police set up in the historic Boston Common park to keep the two sides separate. The city avoided a repeat of last weekend's bloody street battles in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one woman was killed. "I want to applaud the many protestors in Boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 19, 2017 21:45 UTC