[LA Times] Three people were stabbed, including one who was critically wounded, and several others were arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said.
A small group of people representing the Klan had announced that it would hold a rally at Pearson Park at 1:30 p.m., police said. By 11 a.m., several dozen protesters showed up at the park to confront the Klan.
| Two groups of fools looking for a fight, which they found... |
About an hour later, several men in black garb with Confederate flag patches arrived and were escorted by police around the edge of the park.
Violence erupted and some of the protesters could be seen kicking a man whose shirt read "Grand Dragon." At some point, a protester collapsed on the ground bleeding, crying that he had been stabbed.
Nationwide, the number of active KKK groups increased to 190 in 2015 after falling in 2013 and 2014, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
| I would assume most of the groups are in the 5-15 person range if we include significant others and some dogs, which means on the order of 1,000-3,000 members nationwide, up by 15-30 from the 2014 level -- if the increase were significant, the reporter would have said so in disapproving tones. |
| Then again, the data are from the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the more vicious, nasty, disreputable progressive groups on the planet. If they told me that the sun rose in the east, I'd be outside the next morning with a compass. |
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