Boston police say Saturday's "Free Speech Rally" on the Boston Common has officially ended. "Free Speech Rally" organizers have publicly distanced themselves from the white supremacists in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. Thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday from the city's Roxbury neighborhood to Boston Common, where the "Free Speech Rally" is being held. Other counterprotesters intervened and helped the man safely over a fence to where the conservative rally was to be staged. ———10:25 a.m.Demonstrators are arriving at a counterprotest ahead of a conservative rally that's getting underway on Boston Common.

Source: ABC News August 19, 2017 14:34 UTC