NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Hate groups have been demonstrating all over the city of Nashville and Tuesday evening, some of those demonstrators were met with counter-protestors at city hall.
The group signed up to speak but were cleared out of the chamber for disrupting the meeting. After Metro Nashville police escorted them out, they were met by counter-protesters.
“They’ve been doing days of action, especially throughout Nashville,” Nashvillian Reyn Hahn said.
Hahn is talking about a hate group that has been calling themselves Nazis
“Debunk my flyers and I’ll stop being a Nazi,” one of the hate group demonstrators said Tuesday.
The group has held demonstrations all over the city for weeks, and on Tuesday, they attempted to speak at a Metro Council meeting, Where Hahn and other counter-protesters showed up to fight back.
“They came to do a public comment session here at our Metro Council meeting and…they told us that they wanted to speak on white supremacy and on the dangers of the Jewish menace,” Hahn said.
“When we got up there, we turned left to distance ourselves from them and they followed us over there, they stayed yelling in our faces, videotaping us, I couldn’t even get out of the bench,” counter-protester Nicki Pope said.
“They just continued until we were ushered out by the police,” Hahn said.
“You can come back when the meeting starts but we need to be able to do announcements without distractions, thank you,” Zulfat Suara said during the Metro Council meeting.
The group was kicked out of the chambers and left before speaking during the public comment period.
“It’s important that people see that we are going to stand up to this kind of stuff,” Hahn said.
It’s why Reyn and many others like Macy Fluharty came to city hall with signs to fight back against the hate group messages.
“We cannot give these Nazis a space, a platform to use our city council as a platform, that’s not acceptable,” Macy Fluharty said.
Metro Nashville police said they plan to monitor these situations as they arise and make arrests when laws are broken.
