GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A debate on Thursday during a University of Florida by a white jingoist occurred amid a complicated law-enforcement presence.
State troopers and internal military stood during barricades, sealing off a territory of a campus around a school’s Curtis M. Phillips Center for a Performing Arts where Richard Spencer spoke Thursday afternoon. A circuitously state highway was sealed off with dump trucks filled with dirt. Some state troopers donned demonstration uniforms, and all were versed with gas masks.
More than 1,000 people collected nearby a behaving humanities core to criticism opposite Spencer. And in a auditorium where he spoke to a throng of a few hundred, a assembly spent most of a eventuality station and cheering over a speaker, “Go home, Spencer!”
Considered a owner of a alt-right movement, that promotes white nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity, Spencer regularly berated a antagonistic throng for their miss of civility.
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