By Karim Zidan
| April 12, 2021 3:59 pm
A lone protester at a "White Lives Matter" protest in Fresno, California. (Credit: Screenshot)
Despite being promoted as the “spark” that would make the “whole world tremble,” Sunday’s “White Lives Matter” rallies were little more than a spectacular bust.
Planned as the first major white supremacist rally since the 2018 “Unite the Right 2” rally in Washington, D.C., the “White Lives Matter” rallies saw extremely low turnout, with counterdemonstrators outnumbering extremists in various cities across the United States, including Chicago, New York City, Orlando, Fort Worth, and Raleigh.
In Huntington Beach, California, where Ku Klux Klan propaganda fliers were distributed to promote the racist rally, Black Lives Matter supporters vastly outnumbered the “White Lives Matters” rallygoers. According to reports, more than 500 people gathered in downtown Huntington Beach, where a series of skirmishes broke out between the opposing factions. The rally ended prematurely after police declared an unlawful assembly in order to disperse the crowd.