Reporter hi, melissa. We have just moved off the edge of Boston Common where witnesses tell me the members of the boston free speech rally have been moved through the crowd under heavy police coverage, helping them get safely into wagons, and now they have just left through this large crowd that was caboting after them. Im chanting after them. Im also seeing numerous officers still arriving carrying batons basically looking like Tactical Units. The counterprotest crowd in the tens of thousands today. This is something the Boston Police say they were well prepared for. They expected to have over 500 Law Enforcement officers across the city to be ready for both of these protests, and we are seeing that enormous presence right now. Weve heard a tremendous amount of sirens just in the last hour or so. Those sirens were this side of the common as we watched as those wagons carrying the boston free speech members, a much smaller protest. Really hard to gauge how big it was because we could n
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