More than 1,000 counter-protesters showed up to oppose a rally for freedom of speech. This is just how far left the left has gotten. They want to shut down anyone who is pro-America or pro-Trump…
“I learned that they thought my vote was a hate crime,” Kathryn Townsend, who said she voted for Donald Trump in 2016, told Seattle’s Q13 Fox.
Fox News reports:
Five people were arrested as fights broke out and at least one American flag was burned Saturday after a college Republican rally in Seattle drew counter-protesters.
Police on the move as fights broke out and opposition crowd moves in front of Suzzallo library. Very peaceful on Patriots Prayer side. pic.twitter.com/DREqfpEVmf
— Tatevik Aprikyan (@TatevikAprikyan) February 10, 2018
College Republicans at the University of Washington had invited members of Patriot Prayer, a group in Vancouver, Wash., to speak in the university’s Red Square for a “freedom rally,” the Seattle Times reported.
Police close in on a skirmish in the center of Red Square; cuffing two people on the ground. One police officer tells his colleagues to activate their body cams. pic.twitter.com/dYTXmV8B3Q
— Dahlia Bazzaz (@dahliabazzaz) February 10, 2018
The goals were to bring conservatives together and promote free-speech rights, College Republicans President Chevy Swanson told the Times.
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Protestors burn a flag in front of police; A faction of the crowd is now protesting police. pic.twitter.com/7hRDtPpYpg— Dahlia Bazzaz (@dahliabazzaz) February 10, 2018
Go figure…They protest the police who are keeping them safe while they burn the American flag.
As the event got underway, supporters chanted “U-S-A!, U-S-A!,” and signs included one that read, “We died for liberty not socialism.”