Torontonians hold protest against Saturday rally of white supremacists

On Saturday, white supremacists held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in USA, triggering violence in which a 32-year-old woman was killed and 19 people were injured after a driver ploughed a car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Two state troopers were killed when their police helicopter on surveillance crashed.

which prompted the Torontonians to protest  here before the U.S. consulate.

Toronto people hosted the rally as a counter to "Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville which was organised on Saturday.

However, the police shifted the rally from the west of the consulate to the eastern corner. The officers cited more space in the east side of the consulate as the reason behind the displacement of the rally which also facilitated the unblocking of the sidewalks.

Messages were written on the walls of the consulate against the white supremacy and against US President Donald Trump.

One of the demonstrators on Monday, Lynn Campbell, said her two years old child Sophie started to ask questions after seeing the pictures of the Charlottesville rally on Sunday night.

Campbell was quoted by the Star as saying: "It’s kind of hard to explain to a two-year-old that not everyone has the same freedoms as we do and can walk down the street feeling safe."

One uniformed officer, Jim Brown, told the Star: "We’re here to facilitate to make sure it’s safe for everyone."

Brown referred to the people as "passionate" and said "they should be".

Donna Gabaccia, a co-organizer and professor at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus, told the Star that she was in anger after witnessing the public display of "fascist language and symbolism" which came out from Charlottesville.

Image: Official Twitter handle of Alyshah Hasham (https://twitter.com/alysanmati).