I'm not going to argue with that. They received the permit. They had the right to be there.
If the protesters didn't like that then they can take it up with the First Amendment.
However things got out of hand and the riot squad had to be sent in. No use crying to the cops about it and demand that you should be able to stay and fight it out. The only thing he accomplished with that stunt is to have a hard time getting a permit anywhere ever again.
This is how the next march permit process will go in a future town/city:
Richard Spencer: Hi I'd like a permit for a protest march
Town: Hey wait a minute...aren't you the idiot who was complaining to the riot police that you had a right to stay?? With all that stuff going down you didn't want to disperse so life and property could be spared violence?
Richard Spencer: Yep, that was me.
Town: Get the f*ck out of here...and never come back...you stupid sh*t!
Well, considering that the riot police were literally forcing them right into the very people who started lobbing bricks at them as soon as they stepped out of the rally area I'm not too sure that was such a great incentive to convince them to leave the park, knowing that he (Spencer) has received credible death threats and was even attacked in the past by these very people.
If you check some of the videos of the event the only way into the rally area was a narrow passage through the hostile crowd and for some odd reason, despite the large police presence, that entrance area was left unguarded, not even a barricade was placed there to prevent altercations which were bound to happen considering what I already said, and yet that was the main entry point through which they were supposed to pass through.
So I certainly don't think anyone planned to fight it out on the Alt-Right side, and most of their gear was legal and defensive in nature (shields, helmets, folding batons). They came their to give speeches and stand up for their heritage in a symbolic manner with all of the Confederate monuments being torn down all across the South..
However, the people who had no permit to assemble to begin with and who went out of their way to agitate and disrupt another groups lawful assembly clearly came with the intention of causing violence with their assortment of weapons like projectiles including cement filled water bottles, aerosol can flame throwers, Rocks, glass bottles filled with human excrement, knives etc...
But somehow no police presence to restrain and crackdown on these agitators, thus leaving them open to getting plowed by a vehicle who's driver is said to have panicked after they began to lob objects at his car (some sources claim but let's wait and see).
Even if the situation was too much to control for the police presence,
it still made no sense to force two opposing groups into one another, besides making the rally goers walk through a hostile crowd exposing them to pepper spray.
Of course, the Leftist MSM is pinning the blame on the one side that actually did it's best to adhere to the law (somehow they never did that to the left after the Houston cop shootings during the BLM riots, clearly shows these people are Political hacks).
But it's great to see that people are speaking out against the MSM lies:
