Hundreds gathered in KC to denounce last weekend’s white nationalist march
Hundreds of people gathered near the Plaza Saturday evening protesting against masked white nationalists who held a rally outside the WWI Museum and Memorial last weekend.
“Hey, hey, ho, ho, Nazi scum have got to go,” they chanted.
The protesters met at 5 p.m. at Mill Creek Park and walked about two miles through Westport, down Southwest Trafficway and back through the Plaza, according to Ed Hererra, who protested at the event.
This comes after scores of white nationalists called the Patriot Front, “an avowedly fascist nationwide organization” met in Kansas City on Saturday, May 24. They covered their faces and chanted, “Life, liberty, victory” and “Reclaim America.”
Some of them carried shields and other flags, including confederate and upside down American flags. The group formed in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, according to the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.
Sgt. Philip DiMartino of the Kansas City Police Department said Saturday’s protest lasted about three hours and it dispersed peacefully.
