{"id":322508,"date":"2017-08-20T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/boston-free-speech-rally-ends-early-after-protesters-get-escorted-out-by-police\/"},"modified":"2017-08-20T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T16:06:32","slug":"boston-free-speech-rally-ends-early-after-protesters-get-escorted-out-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/boston-free-speech-rally-ends-early-after-protesters-get-escorted-out-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Free Speech Rally Ends Early After Protesters Get Escorted Out By Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/19\/boston-free-speech-rally-ends-early-after-protesters-get-escorted-out-by-police\/\"><strong>Daily Caller<\/strong><\/a><br \/>August 20, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Boston, Mass., free speech rally was cut short after police officers escorted the participants from the premises early Saturday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFree Speech\u201d rally, hosted in the Boston Common for \u201clibertarians, conservatives, traditionalists, classical liberals, Trump supporters or anyone else who enjoys their right to free speech,\u201d ended about an hour after it started, with Boston police officers showing up to escort some of the participants from the area,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/boston\/index.ssf\/2017\/08\/free_speech_rally_on_boston_co.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a>\u00a0MassLive.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 40-60 people showed up in support of the free speech event, while thousands of counter-protesters came out to rally against the \u201cFree Speech\u201d rally, according to local media reports. One of the speakers for the event said the rally ended up \u201cfalling apart\u201d due to poor planning on the part of the organizers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Whose Common? Our Common!&#8221; &#8220;Whose boston? 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The \u201cFree Speech\u201d rally, hosted in the Boston Common for \u201clibertarians, conservatives, traditionalists, classical liberals, Trump supporters or anyone else who enjoys their right to free speech,\u201d ended about an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}