WHEN WE'LL SEE 90-DEGREE HIGH
TEMPERATURES IN THE FORECAST.
THANK YOU.
A PLANNED FREE SPEECH RALLY
BY A GROUP KNOWN AS THE FREE
SPEECH COALITION COALITION
MARCHED.
EMOTIONS RUN HIGH AFTER THE
VIOLENTS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE,
VIRGINIA.
THERE WERE HEATED EXCHANGES
AND BOTTLES OF URINE THROWN AT
POLICE.
99% OF THE PEOPLE WERE STANDING
TALL AGAINST HATRED.
IN SPITE OF THE NOISE,
WE'RE HERE TO STAND UP FOR
SOMETHING FUNDAMENTAL, FREE
SPEECH.
RACIST, HATEFUL PEOPLE ARE
NOT WELCOME AND YOU WILL BE
OVERWHELMED.
IF YOU TAKE IT TO THE
VIOLENCE LEVEL, YOU LOSE YOUR
ARGUMENT 100%.
FIGHT WERE SEEN ON CAMERA,
AND BPD HAD TO CALL IN THE
PUBLIC ORDER PLATOON, MAKING
AROUND 30 ARRESTS.
THEY FOCUSED ON LATE-
DEMONSTRATION PROTESTORS.
HERE'S THE STORY.
Reporter: THE PROTESTS WERE
OVERWHELMINGLY PEACEFUL, BUT
THERE WERE SCUFFLES ON TREMONT
STREET, OUTSIDE THE BOSTON
COMMON.
ABOUT 40,000 PEOPLE CONVERGE ON
THE BOSTON COMMON AND
SURROUNDING AREA FOR THE RALLY
AND ALMOST ALL WERE
COUNTERPROTESTORS.
I'M SHOWING BOTH SIDES THAT
WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER.
I'M SICK AND TIRED OF THE
VIOLENCE AND WHAT HAPPENED IS
TERRIBLE.
THERE WERE AN ESTIMATED 25
TO 50 PEOPLE SURROUND BY
BARRICADES BUT ALL LEFT EARLY.
MANY STAYED, CREATING PROBLEMS
WITH POLICE.
ONE OF THE ALT-RIGHT
MEMBERS WERE COMING DOWN THE
STREET.
Reporter: THIS PERSON WAS
ESCORTED BY POLICE AFTER
GETTING IN BAN ARGUMENT WITH A
COUNTERPROTESTOR AND SOME
SHOUTED OBSCENITIES.
ONE POLICE OFFICER WAS HURT ON
THE BACK AND ANOTHER ON THE
WRIST.
TENSIONS ARE HOT.
I WAS HOLDING MY NECK AND
COULDN'T BREATHE OR SEE FOR 15
MINUTES.
Reporter: PROTESTORS HAD AN
OPEN DIALOGUE WITH THE POLICE
CHIEF.
YOU HAVE REVEREND DR.
MARTIN LUTHER KING WHO LED A
MARCH IN THE SAME SPOT IN 1965
SO I THINK HIS SPIRIT WAS THERE
TODAY.
Reporter: MAYOR MARTY WALSH
KEEPING THE PROTEST PEACEFUL
THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
WBZ NEWS.
THE SECURITY PLANS BLOCKED
CAMERAS FROM GETTING NEAR THE
BANDSTAND.
A LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE POSTED
HIS MESSAGE ON YOUTUBE.
WE WEREN'T COWED DOWN AND
WILL STAND UP FOR YOU AT HOME
AND IN MANY WAYS, YOU'RE TRUE
PATRIOTS BECAUSE IN SPITE OF
THE NOISE, WE'RE STANDING UP
FOR SOMETHING FUNDAMENTAL,
WHICH IS CALLED FREE SPEECH.
ORGANIZERS HAD BEEN
PLANNING THE RALLY SINCE JULY.
CLEARLY OVERSHADOWED BY THE
COUNTERPROTESTS, ONE OF WHICH
ORIGINATED IN ROXBURY, MAYOR
WALSH WAS THERE.
HE THANKED BOSTON POLICE AND
THE PEOPLE WHO PROTESTED
PEACEFULLY.
IN A SERIES OF TWEETS,
PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID, "I WANT
TO APPLAUD THE MANY PROTESTORS
IN BOSTON WHO ARE SPEAKING OUT
AGAINST BIGOTRY AND HATE.
OUR COUNTRY WILL SOON COME
TOGETHER AS ONE."
HE ADDED, "OUR GREAT COUNTRY
HAS BEEN DIVIDED FOR DECADES.
SOMETIMES YOU NEED PROTESTS IN
ORDER TO HEAL, AND WE WILL HEAL
AND WILL BE STRONGER THAN EVER
BEFORE."
YOU CAN VIEW OUR COMPLETE
COVERAGE OF THE PROTESTS,
