Three Ku Klux Klan members may owe their lives to a Jewish activist who attended a rally Saturday by the hate group and then held angry counter-protesters at bay until police arrived. The Klan members were participating in an anti-immigration rally in Anaheim, a city with historical links to the Klan. But when signs declaring that “White Lives Matter,” in response to the African-American movement whose mantra is that “Black Lives Matter,” appeared, a brawl broke out, according to witnesses. A black SUV that brought Klan members had its windows smashed, and sped away, leaving three Klan members garbed in black and festooned with Confederate flags, alone amid the counter-protesters. “(The counter-protesters) were so angry, they would have torn these folks limb from limb,” said Brian Levin, who directs the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. “I was afraid for their lives.” Levin, who went to Pearson Park expecting to record the rally for research, found himself protecting the Klansmen until police could intervene. On a video Levin shot and posted to Twitter, he later asked one of them, “How do you feel that a Jewish person helped save your life today?” “I thank you. I thank you,” said the Klansman, waving away the question with his blood-spattered arm. “I would have saved a colored man’s life,” he added. Five Klan members were arrested, but later released because evidence show they acted in self-defense, police said Sunday. Police said the Klansmen stabbed three counter-protesters with knives and the decorative end of a flag pole. Seven people who remained in custody were seen beating, stomping and attacking the Klansmen with wooden posts, Sgt. Daron Wyatt told The Associated Press. A police statement said the clash, which erupted after six Klan members arrived at a park Saturday for a planned anti-immigration rally, was started by a larger group of 10 to 20 counter-protesters who had “the intent of perpetrating violence.” “Regardless of an individual or groups’ beliefs or ideologies, they are entitled to live without the fear of physical violence and have the right, under the law, to defend themselves when attacked,” the statement said. Much of the clash was captured on video and posted online. In one, a man cries “I got stabbed,” lifting his T-shirt to show a wound to his stomach. A fire hydrant where the man briefly sat was covered in blood.

This is a follow up to the article we posted about this incident a couple days ago.  To read the rest of this article from the AP, click on the text above.  Again, where were the cops?  This was a planned rally, and all of these protesters were there armed and ready to start violence, according to the police.  So, why weren’t the police there to prevent that?  Major fail on the part of the Anaheim PD!  And, kudos to Brian for stepping in to assist.  That’s certainly an interesting twist.  Although his question to the Klansman was a bit self-righteous.  I wonder if he’ll rethink who the real purveyors of violence are these days.  I mean..c’mon.. This isn’t the 1920s, or even early 1960s, folks.  These were just six guys wanting to hold a little (planned, and probably even got their permit) rally in a park in Anaheim with signs that say, “White Lives Matter.”  By extreme contrast, compare that to the “Black Lives Matter” movement which has, by ANY definition engaged in violent, terrorist activity…and shows up in restaurants and shopping malls raising holy hell.  And yet so-called “civil rights” groups like the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will go on and on about the Klan (whose numbers are around 5,000 nationally, and mostly amount to middle-aged guys/gals in states like AR, TN, and NC)…while turning a blind eye to the actions of groups like Black Lives Matter, and the New Black Panther Party which clearly are violent groups, whose numbers are growing.  But, then again the SLPC thinks that peaceful, pro-life church groups like Dr. Dobson’s Family Research Council are “hate groups.”  So, consider the source..