WEBVTT 00:02.466 --> 00:04.000 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% HARI SREENIVASAN: Echoes of last weekend's protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, continued 00:04.000 --> 00:06.500 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% to reverberate today. 00:06.500 --> 00:10.566 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% Counterprotesters took to the streets in Durham, North Carolina, even before a rumored white 00:11.733 --> 00:13.800 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% supremacist march got under way there. 00:13.800 --> 00:18.233 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And in Boston, police and city officials are preparing the city for a self-titled free 00:19.433 --> 00:20.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% speech demonstration slated for tomorrow. 00:20.966 --> 00:22.233 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% John Yang takes it from here. 00:22.233 --> 00:24.233 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% JOHN YANG: Thanks, Hari. 00:24.233 --> 00:27.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% To talk about how Boston authorities plan to deal with tomorrow's rally, I'm joined 00:27.866 --> 00:32.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% from Boston by Phillip Martin, a senior investigative reporter at PBS station WGBH. 00:33.766 --> 00:35.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Phillip, thanks for joining us. 00:35.700 --> 00:37.766 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% First of all, help us understand this. 00:37.766 --> 00:42.366 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Is there any connection between the people organizing tomorrow's event in Boston and 00:43.833 --> 00:46.766 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% the people who organized last week's event in Charlottesville? 00:46.766 --> 00:51.766 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% PHILLIP MARTIN, WGBH: Well, the people who are organizing tomorrow's event would like 00:53.100 --> 00:55.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% to say there's no connection. 00:55.066 --> 00:57.033 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% They call themselves the Free Speech Coalition. 00:57.033 --> 01:01.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And I can talk about that later, what the Southern Poverty Law Center says about the 01:01.266 --> 01:03.366 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% Free Speech Coalition. 01:03.366 --> 01:07.666 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% But some of the same speakers, some who have now been disinvited or dropped out altogether, 01:09.566 --> 01:13.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% are some of the same people who are connected to the Charlottesville rally. 01:15.566 --> 01:18.800 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% We're talking about people like Augustus Invictus, a renowned white supremacist, someone who 01:18.800 --> 01:23.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% believes that there should be a second civil war, and a fellow named Joe Biggs, notorious 01:23.733 --> 01:28.733 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% also within extreme right circles who also has an association with what many call the 01:30.133 --> 01:33.266 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% alt-right, what others simply call white supremacists. 01:33.266 --> 01:38.266 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JOHN YANG: So, given that, what are Boston police and others doing to try to -- or what 01:39.733 --> 01:43.000 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% lessons do you think they have learned from Charlottesville? 01:43.000 --> 01:46.366 align:left position:20%,start line:77% size:70% What are they doing to make sure there isn't another Charlottesville? 01:46.366 --> 01:51.366 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% PHILLIP MARTIN: Well, they are intent on guaranteeing that there's not another Charlottesville. 01:56.033 --> 01:58.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% You could start with the deployment. 01:58.266 --> 02:01.100 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We're talking about 500 police officers tomorrow. 02:01.100 --> 02:05.000 align:left position:20%,start line:71% size:70% None of them will simply be sitting around, which is what they believe is one of the lessons 02:05.000 --> 02:08.566 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% from Charlottesville, not that they were super critical of what happened in Charlottesville, 02:08.566 --> 02:10.600 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% but they're aware of it. 02:10.600 --> 02:14.433 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And so they're talking about blocking off streets, the entire perimeter that borders 02:14.433 --> 02:15.700 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% the Boston Commons. 02:15.700 --> 02:19.066 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% So, you won't see cars driving into a crowd. 02:19.066 --> 02:23.733 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% They're very much aware of what happened in Virginia and very much aware of what happened 02:23.733 --> 02:27.300 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% in Spain, in Barcelona, the use of cars as weapons. 02:27.300 --> 02:32.300 align:left position:10%,start line:71% size:80% You will also see a huge deployment of state police officers playing a secondary role. 02:34.266 --> 02:37.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% And what you won't see are undercover police officers who will be dispersed throughout 02:37.933 --> 02:42.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% the crowd ready to take away sticks that might be -- were attached to placards, ready to 02:44.666 --> 02:47.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% take away bottles, ready to take away spray cans. 02:47.866 --> 02:52.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% Anything that might be used as a weapon or construed as a weapon will be taken away by 02:53.500 --> 02:55.033 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% police officers. 02:55.033 --> 02:57.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% They're also working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force. 02:57.133 --> 03:01.866 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% They have been looking at the organization, again, that's sponsoring this, a coalition 03:03.866 --> 03:07.933 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% of actually young people who call themselves libertarian, but whose speakers roster and 03:09.833 --> 03:14.033 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% some of their rhetoric reflects some of the extreme right-wing events that we have seen 03:15.200 --> 03:17.333 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% around the country, including in Virginia. 03:17.333 --> 03:20.500 align:left position:10%,start line:77% size:80% JOHN YANG: Phillip Martin from WGBH in Boston, thanks so much for helping us out understand 03:21.366 --> 03:21.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% what's going to happen tomorrow.