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Over, any kind of violence or anything like that today. >> no, i have not seen anything negative. all i have seen is just people altogether chanting, you know, black lives matter, we all are together. down with naziism and hatred. >> how important is that? i mean, how important is it to the fact that there was no -- or no significant violence or anything kind of trouble like that here today, to getting the message across. >> well, as long as it doesn't happen -- what happened in charlottesville, virginia. every message is positive. >> and we were talking earlier about the message getting out o...

Right, alex. i have to echo what akilah said. if you're part of the counterprotest group here, you accomplished exactly what you set out. to numerically, they swashed the actual protest itself and then we're talking about the issues that matter to the counterprotesters, not the issues that matter to the folks who had set up this free speech event that so many of them were concerned it would turn into a hate speech event. ruben davis drove an hour and a half to be here. how do you feel with everything you've seen here? do you feel like the counterprotesters got the message out that you guys wan...

Interesting stuff. we were not able to capture with our cameras but one you talk about a crowd burning confederate flags on the common which is starting to have a festival feel without the torching of the confederate flag, that is. so talk about the things that you saw. >> well, i mean, i'm still seeing. there's still a large out here and it still does feel relatively peaceful and like a festival. there was just a skirmish where police had to escort a young man from the common after he was chased by a crowd. i'm not sure what the impetus of that was. but the crowd was shouting at him, you know...

Right against a police line trying to get into that white nationalist group. they were there hoping for a confrontation that not happen, because police kept that line solid. now they seem to be pushing back the opposite direction. towards the park where they originated, but earlier tensions were really high. there was a police line right between, probably about two blocks away between that white nationalist group and these protestors. pushing back against the crowd and the counterprotest group started shooting the police with silly string. started throwing things at police, and so police start...

Trying to get into that white nationalist group. they were there hoping for a confrontation. that did not happen because police kept that line solid. now they seem to be pushing back the opposite direction towards the park where they originated. but earlier tensions were really high. there was a police line right between -- probably about two blocks away between that white nationalist group and these counterprotesters. they were pushing back against the crowd, and the counterprotest group started shooting the police with silly string, started throwing things at police so police started fightin...