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Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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AJC LOCAL IN-DEPTH: STONE MOUNTAIN RALLY 6 hours ago
By Chris Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A group of white nationalists and white supremacists are moving ahead with plans to hold a pro-white rally at Stone Mountain on the Saturday before the Super Bowl despite being denied an official permit.
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The organizers behind the planned rally are the same people who attempted to stage a white power rally in 2016 called Rock Stone Mountain. Only about two dozen white supremacists showed up, but they drew hundreds of counter demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police for hours until officials shut down the park.
The Stone Mountain Memorial Association, the state body that governs the park, referenced the 2016 rally in November as its grounds for denying Rock Stone Mountain organizers a permit to gather. Weaver said he and his fellow organizers, who include members of the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, believe the denial violates their First Amendment rights, but he said they have been unable to find an attorney to take their case.
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Weaver, whose given name is Michael Carothers, pleaded guilty in 2011 to aggravated assault after he pepper sprayed a black man in Columbus. As part of his sentence, Weaver was banished from the six-county Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit.
Read more: https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional/white-nationalists-plan-stone-mountain-rally-super-bowl-weekend/rXxCxQF5OKYm9XIh1UWMHM/
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Michael Weaver (Michael Carothers) (On the right)