if, indeed you can say it has been brought down. yeah. you re always going to have some of these groups. they are driven by this ideology. matter of fact their bible is something called the turner bible. it describes people who are anti-semitic and racist and full of bigotry and should take down the u.s. government. zionists against the government, if you will. so what they are trying to do in this particular episode, this was a group that decided to use violence, robbery, mayhem, murder in odd to finance their ideology and what was interesting is that they took the money, didn t take it from themselves and they stole a lot of money. one particular heist over $2 million. they use that money to buy weapons. to buy pamphlets and ways to communicate their message of hate and bigotry and this notion that they were going to take
that they ve arrived here at the boston common the group has nearly doushld or tripled in size. what was the most heated moment was when the free speech demonstrators protected by law enforcement were taking their posts but since left. they are about had a to 50 minutes from here. just for clarity, your vantage point is from a separate location where there are more counter demonstrators. have you seen anyone that represents the rally in which these counter protesters, you know, are trying to convey a message, meaning that the rally that is calling itself the boston free speech coalition. reporter: absolutely. i was able to snap a picture of a gentleman wearing an american flag and wearing make an american great hat. he was surrounded by police as he was silently walking,
activities of that are on the fringz let s see what s happening right here right now. hold on for a moment. i want to bring in sarah whose also on the ground there in boston among demonstrators and i want to get her point of view and sentiment from the demonstrators there that are near her, sarah? reporter: so we re in an interesting position. this is boston common, the oldest park in america. on my left there is a huge group of black lives matter people who had basically set this whole thing up, organized it. to my right it s a lot of the antifascist and that group that also helped to organize. we re going to walk into the crowd here. you re hearing a lot of sirens. police he we understand have come in and some of them have riot gear on. it s peaceful. for the most part you re hearing speeches. people talking about how they feel about america right now in light of what happened in charlottesville and in light of some of the comments the president has made this past week. you re he
enforcement and their action to again try to separate these groups. okay. thank you so much jonathan for your point of view on this. it is very fluid. we re watching it as you re watching it at home. and, again, there are what appears to be hundreds if not thousands of people who have descended there on boston for these demonstrations with different points of view. one organized group saying they are there for free speech. we had a couple of guests on earlier who described the group or familiar with the group named boston free speech coalition as a group that it says is one that cultivates fear and then you have thousands of other people who have descended on boston, who have been marching in the name of unity and peace, calling themselves counter demonstrations.
demonstrations there in boston. one group calling itself the boston free speech coalition. it s progressives, conservatives and independents. i had a couple guests on earlier today, one who is a former skin head and one whose representative of the law center that this group is known to cultivate fear and that is one of its objectives. that group and demonstration being met by counterprotests, people who say they were there in the name of peace and unity. we understand from our sarah reporting that black lives matter organized it largely. it s multi-cultural, multi-racial and you re seeing thousands of people who have turned out in the streets. now we understand from police according to the boston police department they have just tweeted that the free speech rally is over and that that group is disbursing now, but they re continue to be hundreds of thousands perhaps even people