Transit
officials in Washington, DC, considered providing separate trains for
those attending the "Unite the Right" rally this weekend. The goal was
to help prevent a violent confrontation like the one at the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally in 2017.
Unionized transit workers opposed the plan, arguing that it would give special treatment to a hate group.
DC Metro announced that it would not move forward with the accommodations.
In the past, the city's subway system has not separated protestors or rally-goersfrom the public. Other cities around the world have separated women from men on trains to help avoid sexual harassment.
Hundreds of protesters and counterprotesters are expected to head to the nation's capital for a "Unite the Right" rally
on Sunday. The event will be held on the anniversary of last year's
rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a neo-Nazi named James Fields
drove into a crowd of anti-racist activists. Three people died, including a woman named Heather Heyer, and dozens were left injured.
In an effort to curb violence this year, the city's subway
system, DC Metro, considered whether to provide separate trains for the
group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
"We'd like to keep the groups separate. We don't want incidents on Metro," Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans told News4 last week. "Maybe [we will] put all of one group on a train or a certain car on a train."
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I also read about how Airbnb is not for this rally at all, and are threatening to ban users who are looking to participate in this rally.
"When we identify and determine that there are
those who would be pursuing behavior on the Airbnb platform that would
be antithetical to the Airbnb Community Commitment, we seek to take
appropriate action, which may include removing them from the
platform," the company confirmed in a statement shared with Fox News.
"We acted in advance of last year's horrific event in
Charlottesville and if we become aware of similar information we won’t
hesitate to do so again."
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My advice to the counter protestors is to be safe and keep the cameras rolling. I know how emotional and heated things can get, however any unnecessary trouble is not worth it. When they go low, we go high. It's nothing wrong with standing up for what you believe in, I just urge everyone to do it with class. Especially when you're dealing with a group of hateful people who are cowards.
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