Organizer of far-right rally in San Francisco cancels Saturday news conference
The organizer of a far-right rally that had been scheduled Saturday in San Francisco canceled an afternoon news conference, claiming police have blocked access to the area where it was to be held.
The news conference was set to take place at 2 p.m. at Alamo Square in downtown San Francisco, in place of a "Freedom Rally" that had been planned for Crissy Field Beach, according to a Facebook post published by Joey Gibson, founder of the Patriot Prayer group and organizer of the event.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed announced Saturday morning that Alamo Park would be closed to the public.
The planned rally had drawn concerns from city officials and police after the bedlam during protests in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month, and some politicians had denounced the event as a white supremacist rally.
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