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US: At Least 14 Arrested As Protesters Face Off In Berkeley, California

US: At Least 14 Arrested As Protesters Face Off In Berkeley, California
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US Police arrested at least 14 people and reportedly deployed tear gas as demonstrators from the Left and Right of the political spectrum held rallies in Berkeley, California.

US: At Least 14 Arrested As Protesters Face Off In Berkeley, California

Most of the suspected offenders were arrested for bringing banned items into the rally zone, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Berkeley police spokeswoman Jennifer Coats as saying.According to the police official, at least one person was injured in a fight.

White smoke was seen on the scene, believed by local media and some eyewitnesses to be tear gas, as the two sides clashed in the university city.

Berkeley, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, had been set to host a "No To Marxism in America" rally of right-wing activists at the Martin Luther King Civic Center Park Sunday.

A counter demonstration, billed as a "Rally Against Hate", was then established to protest against the right-wing event.

However the organizer of the anti-Marxism rally, Amber Cummings, subsequently cancelled the event saying Berkeley officials and left-wing extremists had made it impossible for the event to go ahead, local TV station KCRA reported.

Cummings urged people to stay away from the park.

Despite the cancellation, counter-demonstration organizers decided to proceed with the "Rally Against Hate".

Large groups of activists showed up at various parts of Berkeley, with more than 1,000 people congregating on Oxford Street alone, the LA Times reports.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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