Praise de 'chosenk', wees aints raaciiiasts, wees cretians ! Party poopers: rightwing rally cancelled in San Francisco amid dog poo protest

Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco
The Guardian August 25, 2017
Rightwing group Patriot Prayer cancels Saturday event, citing ‘safety concerns’ and ‘smear campaign’ that branding the group white supremacists

A dog owner and pets at the rally site. Protesters had organized to fill the field with dog feces in anticipation of the event. Photograph: Stephen Lam/Reuters

Patriot Prayer, the rightwing protest group that planned to rally in San Francisco on Saturday, has cancelled its event, citing safety concerns and a “smear campaign” by elected officials who called them “white supremacists”.

The group said it still intended to attend a rally on Sunday in nearby Berkeley, which has seen a number of violent standoffs between rightwing protesters and anti-fascist activists this year.

“We’re going to put our effort and resources into Berkeley,” Patriot Prayer organizer Joey Gibson said in a Facebook Live broadcast. “Berkeley is a better situation because we don’t feel that we’re walking into a trap.”

However, shortly after, the organizer of the Berkeley rally released a statement urging people not to come to her “No to Marxism in America” rally. Andrea Cummings said she was concerned for the safety of the people who might come to the event.

Thousands of San Franciscans were planning to mount counter-protests against the rightwing event, with residents planning to dance, march, rally, and boat in defiance of rightwing extremism. Several hundred people even announced a plan to allow their dogs to poo on the protest site in advance of the event. https://www.yahoo.com/news/party-poopers-rightwing-rally-cancelled-232607250.html