![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The BPD has a long-held reputation as a racially intolerant public institution. The result was a tense face-off between some mostly peaceful counter-demonstrators and Boston Police Department officers in full riot gear on Boylston Street, where sporadic scuffles broke out. Set against the backdrop of racial tensions in Boston between law enforcement and people of color, some of the counterprotesters wondered whose side the police were on. The numbers were overwhelmingly in favor of the antiracist demonstrations, but as the day progressed, counterprotesters still had reason to question if their city - and, in particular, its institutions - was behind them or the right-wing demonstrators.Īs the far-right rally came to a close, however, the attendees needed to exit the city’s downtown area, which was swamped with antiracist demonstrators. A “free speech” rally in the city - which was tied to the “alt-right,” a conservative faction that espouses far-right ideologies grounded in white supremacy - turned out what police estimated to be between 50 and 75 people. Lloyd was among the estimated 40,000 counterprotesters who showed up. Lloyd, a Boston resident, expressed her frustration with the police after officers clashed with antiracist demonstrators over the weekend. ![]() “It’s unbelievable that this many police officers came here to protect them,” Ashley Lloyd said. ![]()
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