Anaheim, CA KKK Rally 2-26-16

Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; three stabbed - LA Times

Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; three stabbed - 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.

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.....

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Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer mingles with two-year-old Josiah Johnson and his father, Dorian, in April during the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission's YouthBuild community event. (Carl Costas/For the Washington Post)

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FRESNO, Calif. — The toddler had just finished having his face painted bright red and white when he barreled toward Jerry Dyer, Fresno’s broad-shouldered chief of police. Dyer, his bald head reddening after several hours in the sun, bent to catch the boy.

“You having a good time?” Dyer asked with a smile, as the child’s mother whipped out a phone to take a photo. “When you get a little bigger, I want you to grow up to be a police officer.”

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