Shelbyville: Police Presence and Virginia March

shelbyville: The protesters started in Shelbyville, then travelled about 55 kilometres north to Murfreesboro for a second rally, according to CBC. Both towns are near Nashville, the centre of a metropolitan area that has become home to refugees from Somalia, Iraq and elsewhere. The White Lives Matter rallies in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro, organized by some of the same groups involved in a Virginia march in August that turned violent, drew an equal number of counter-demonstrators and a heavy police presence. When they say refugees, what they really mean is Muslims.'- Ibrahim Hooper, Council on American-Islamic Relations spokesperson We don't want the federal government to keep dumping all these refugees into middle Tennessee, said Brad Griffin, a member of a group known as the League of the South, who has written about his desire to create a white ethnostate. To help keep the peace, Shelbyville police used temporary fencing to separate the white nationalists from counter-demonstrators. High security Saturday's rallies were organized by the Nationalist Front coalition, which embraces groups considered neo-Nazi or neo-Confederate by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.