Permit granted for a "white civil rights" rally on the National Mall. The organizer is the same man who organized last year's white supremacist rally that turned deadly last year. The permit is for August 11th and 12th, so basically a one year anniversary.
- Hope there will be roadblocks to protect pedestrians.
- Wonder if Trump will be addressing his "fine people" personally?
‘Unite the Right’ organizer gets approval for rally anniversary event in D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSET) -- Jason Kessler, the organizer of the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, has been given the go ahead for another rally this year.
Kessler is holding the rally in Washington, D.C. on the anniversaries of the violence in Charlottesville: the torch-lit march by white nationalists at UVA and the deadly rally at Emancipation Park.
The National Parks Service approved a permit for the event.
He was denied a request to hold the anniversary rally in Charlottesville with the city saying it posed a danger to public safety and couldn't be accommodated in the location he requested.
Kessler's D.C. permit allows him to hold a two-day protest in Lafayette Park near the White House on August 11 and 12.
He's still litigating his request for a permit to hold a rally in Charlottesville on the same days.