Reaching our people: Memphis After Action Report

While over 200 carloads of Confederate supporters carried out a motorcade through Memphis Saturday, longtime White Nationalist leader Billy Roper gave interviews to the media, spoke to his supporters and the press, and led them in singing a verse of “Dixie” before leaving after spending two hours adjacent to Health Sciences park.

The actions of the Memphis City Council and Mayor were detailed and described as illegal and unethical, as well as dishonest, in their removal of the Confederate statues from the city on December 20th. While estimates are that the city was forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in providing security for the event, none of Billy Roper’s rally participants, who outnumbered counter-protesters, were arrested.

The removal of the statues was tied to what Roper called the genocide of Whites, represented by some of his supporters holding a large banner claiming that “Diversity Equals White Genocide”.

Some initial media coverage:

-Video from Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper, for USA Today: After being told to remove his kevlar body armor vest by police before entering the rally checkpoint, Billy Roper jokingly performs a strip-tease for the media, asking for singles folded vertically.

-The Local Memphis crew has trouble counting the number of supporters at the rally, even while videotaping it.

News 5 in Memphis carries video of both the motorcade and the Rally For Forrest, HERE.

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