Sunday, March 31, 2013

KKK Came And Went

MPD successful in keeping KKK rally 'civil'
The KKK had a First Amendment right to rally in downtown Memphis.  Police had a duty to keep it civil.  They did.  In the end, only about 60 stereotypical Klansmen protested the recent renaming of 3 city parks behind a chain-linked fence.  Hundreds of cops kept the rally from devolving into a free for all like a similar rally in 1998.

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