White supremacy groups including Ku Klux Klan chapter met by protesters at South Carolina State House



Five people were arrested at a demonstration between hundreds of white supremacists and an African-American activist group that faced-off Saturday on the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse.

Neo-Nazis and members of a Ku Klux Klan chapter were among those chanting “White power” while toting Confederate flags and swastikas from behind a barricade. They were met by members of the Black Educators for Justice as state troopers watched over both groups.

South Carolina Highway Patrol counted at least 2,000 attendees at the peak of the rally despite an urge by Gov. Nikki Haley to boycott the klan’s “spectacle” scheduled earlier this week.

“We want to make the Statehouse a lonely place for them,” Haley said in a statement.

Bottles were reportedly tossed into the air as a crowd who refused to heed Haley’s words briefly swelled with violence during the scorching afternoon rally.

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