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Hope you guys can hear me. we've heard a number of sirens, a lot of sirens, so we rushed over here to get some idea of what's going on. we were told by multiple witnesses that the free speech rally crowd had been brought out on this side of the commons and had been taken into the streets, put into wagons by the police that had helped them secure safety getting off of the common and that now they're trying to make their way through boston. they've gotten just a little bit past the corner of boyleston and fremont where a huge crowd of counter-protesters had initially been blocking -- maybe even ...

We're standing in front of a wall of signs left behind by the counter-protester,s i what pan down the line but there are a few that have language not appropriate for television show in this time of day. but only a few and that sort of matches up with the general breakdown of what we saw here. mostly 99.9% came because they wanted to give a message of unity, a message to the president to the country that they weren't going to tolerate hate speech and division. now there were some people who took out their anger on police officers. some people who got arrested and some people acting inappropriat...

People being taken into custody. i can say i did witness several people that had tried to leave presumably from the free speech rally side of things being surrounded by counter-protesters. one individual saying i'm just trying to get home, he was covered in glitter, pushing through surrounded by police that were trying to help him get off of the commons. i saw at least two instances of that where people were screaming all sorts of wild things that can't be repeated on television while that individual was trying to leave the common. be there are people that were saying hands up, don't shoot jus...

That it's ended peacefully except for a few minor fights that broke out and the boston police there to quell those fights, what -- how would you describe the atmosphere there now? what do they want to do? will they go home peacefully or continue to protest throughout the city today? >> reporter: i think the great majority will go home peacefully. they're already starting to disperse and clap. i think they feel like they've proved their point with their numbers. i mean, if you have 15,000 on one side and 50 on the other, it's a pretty dramatic difference for the two sides. we're still hearing s...

The demonstration drawing an estimated 40,000 people, prompting the city to deploy hundreds of officers. molly line is reporting from boston. molly? >> reporter: kelly, what a day for the city of boston and the boston police department. they remained busy well into the evening hours, although the vast majority of the protest ors that came here -- protesters that came here, the counter-protesters, there were still some troublemakers that hung around well into the evening. we have video of one of the final arrests made most arely for disturbing the peace but also some assaults on officers. offic...