“I was the only person who showed up”

Attempts to organize far-right “White Lives Matter” marches in cities across the country have failed miserably, with a number of planned events having almost no participants, or being canceled altogether.

White rulers, neo-Nazis and other extremists coordinated dozens of rallies in cities such as Fort Texas, Chicago, Illinois and Orlando, Florida, all of which would take place Sunday at 1 p.m.

The marches were planned and discussed on social media and the encrypted messaging program Telegram.

However, there was no real indication that many of the White Lives marches would be well attended, with several dedicated channels for individual marches in cities with only a handful of subscribers.

The largest gathering at the White Lives Matter gathering apparently took place in Huntington Beach, California, but the white supremacists were still well over 200 opponents.

An illegal meeting was later declared after physical disputes broke out between the two opposing parties.

Elsewhere, other planned White Lives Matter saw almost no participants from the right, and some met only a handful with a large crowd of protesters.

According to NBC News, there was only White Lives Matter march in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Sunday, with three arriving outside City Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.

On Telegram, discouraged marchers described their disappointment over the failure of the rallies planned in their city.

The administrator who organized a march in Kenner, Louisiana, wrote on Telegram: “No one showed up at the meeting point, it’s almost two hours since the technical start time for the march. We call it, the march becomes “If anyone is still trying to retrieve it, I advise you not to do so.”

One Telegram user in Memphis, Tennessee, described how they ‘sat’ around the area ‘of the protest, but’ no one showed up ‘on Sunday.

The organizer of a white supremacist gathering in Nashville, Tennessee, added: “Cub, I was the only person who showed up and after an hour and a half here and there, I go home.”

In an almost empty Telegram group for a White Lives Matter protest in Norfolk, Virginia, one woman wrote, “Well, that was a shame.”

The organizers of the events were already in disarray days before April 11, as reported by Vice News, Telegram channels planned rallies in cities such as Philadelphia and New York to be fop races created by antifa to acts as a ‘honey pot’ to expose the neo. -Nazis and extremists hoping to take part.

At least one person was seen on Sunday at the fake “White Lives Matter” protest outside Trump Tower in New York.

Other admins for the marches also expressed fears about the Nazi images and racism appearing in the channels, which they feared would deter people from the movement.

“This event should be 110% optical in the sense of no swastikas or anything that deters norms. This is the chance to engage with norms,” ​​one administrator wrote.

Others also expressed concern about the attention the marches were receiving in the media, with police departments across the country declaring that they were aware of the planned rallies and that they were planning accordingly.

“We hope such events will be an opportunity to provide unity rather than a platform to spread hatred, divisions and divisions,” a Huntington Beach police spokesman said before Sunday’s riots.

“The city of Huntington Beach prides itself on the values ​​of diversity, equity and inclusion.”