Hundreds of counter-protesters demonstrated against an estimated nine attendees of a planned rally by a Ku Klu Klan-affiliated group in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday, CBS affiliate WHIO reported. Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl told the station he was "very pleased" with security, noting that no one was arrested or injured.

"This clearly was a safety challenge for our city and our community," Biehl said. City officials estimated that the cost of security measures for the event with nine KKK members was $650,000, according to TIME.

The nine members of the Honorable Sacred Knights of Indiana did little talking and when they did try to communicate, counter-protesters made sure they couldn't be heard, WHIO reports. All but one of the Klan members wore masks.

City officials estimated that around 500 to 600 people gathered in the area of Courthouse Square during the rally. News spread nationally earlier this week about the planned KKK rally after the group received a permit last month for the event.

Counter protesters gather en masse to protest against a rally held by the KKK affiliated group Honorable Sacred Knights of Indiana at Courthouse Square on May 25, 2019 in Dayton, Ohio. Matthew Hatcher / Getty Images

More than 200 people attended an NAACP-sponsored "Love" event in downtown Dayton, city officials told WHIO.

Mayor Nan Whaley praised those who attended the counter-event "to celebrate what Dayton is all about."

"We are united against hate," Whaley said. "We are a community that no matter who you love, where you come from or what you believe, you are welcome in Dayton." </s> • A nine-person Ku Klux Klan rally in Dayton, Ohio Saturday was protested by an estimated 600 people.
• No one was injured or arrested. Security for the event cost the city $650,000.
• "This is probably Dayton at its best," Dayton City Commissioner Darryl Fairchild said.

Nine Ku Klux Klan members showed up at a rally in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday.

Their voices were drowned out by an estimated 600 counter-protestors, who drummed so they couldn't be heard and carried signs with messages like "Make racists afraid again," according to the Dayton Daily News.

"There is a great crowd of people down here on Main Street," Dayton City Commissioner Darryl Fairchild told the Daily News. "This is probably Dayton at its best."

The Klan protest was meant to be small in scale, with only 20 people expected to show up. They waved American, KKK, and Confederate flags, and wore masks to disguise themselves.

A shirtless protester is covered in a message reading, "This Jew Will Replace you." Hundreds of counter protesters, including the Nation of Islam, New Black Panthers, and Huey Newton Gun Club, American Indian Movement, and ANTIFA gathered in downtown Dayton, Ohio to protest members of the KKK. Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The scale of the counter-protest was more unexpected. After the Klan obtained a permit to protest months ago, city officials organized Dayton United Against Hate to rival them. A city official told Time that more than 350 police officers were brought in to keep the peace. No one was arrested or injured, a city official told Cleveland.com.

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The city spent $650,000 on police protection, police said. The KKK members were given a police escort for the day.

"This ugly chapter is over, but it means we have to get back to the real work - making sure that no matter what you look like, where you come from, or who you love, that you can have a great life here in Dayton," Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said on Twitter after the protest.
• An Alabama newspaper editor who called for the KKK to 'ride again' has been replaced by a black woman
• An Alabama newspaper editor called for mass lynchings and for the KKK to return and 'clean out DC'
• A Boston museum publicly apologized after a group of black students on a field trip said they were told, 'No food, no drink, no watermelon' </s> A much-publicized Ku Klux Klan rally planned for Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday only drew nine members of the notoriously racist group — and they were met with a total of 600 counter-protesters ready to drown them out.

The plans for the KKK rally had put the Ohio city on edge and fearful of some of the violent clashes that have taken place in recent months between racist groups and counter-protesters. As Time magazine noted, those fears appeared to be unfounded, as the KKK apparently decided to stay away, with just nine members showing up to take part in the planned rally.

The small group attempted to chant racist slogans, but were drowned out by the hundreds of people who came to meet them. A report from WHIO TV7 noted that the counter-protesters managed to shout down the KKK members every time they tried to speak, essentially thwarting the protest. A Church of God group from Greenville also traveled to Dayton to take part in the counter-protest, singing “Amazing Grace” loudly to drown out the racist group.

Other religious groups also took part in the counter-protest, including a number of Quakers. Some of the counter-protesters wore traditional Black Panther garb, while some had scarves over their faces in adopting the clothing associated with the anti-racist group Antifa.

All but one of the KKK members had their faces covered.

Those who showed up to oppose the KKK had signs telling them that hatred was not welcome in the city. Many local businesses joined in as well, placing signs outside bars and restaurants saying that the racist group was not welcome and that they would not serve members of the KKK.

In all, the counter-protesters were outnumbered by a ratio of roughly 100 to 1. There were roughly 350 police officers called into duty as well, though the group of white supremacists was so small that there were no violent clashes like what was seen in Charlottesville, Virginia, or Portland, Oregon, in recent months.

The large and organized response to the racist group earned praise from some local leaders.

“There is a great crowd of people down here on Main Street,” City Commissioner Darryl Fairchild told WHIO TV7. “This is probably Dayton at its best.”

The KKK rally was not without impact on the city of Dayton, however. City Manager Shelley Dickstein told the Daily News that the rally cost the city roughly $650,000 in increased personnel and security costs. </s> Nine Ku Klux Klan members showed up at a rally in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday.

Their voices were drowned out by an estimated 600 counter-protestors, who drummed so they couldn't be heard and carried signs with messages like "Make racists afraid again," according to the Dayton Daily News.

"There is a great crowd of people down here on Main Street," Dayton City Commissioner Darryl Fairchild told the Daily News. "This is probably Dayton at its best."

The Klan protest was meant to be small in scale, with only 20 people expected to show up. They waved American, KKK, and Confederate flags, and wore masks to disguise themselves.

A shirtless protester is covered in a message reading, "This Jew Will Replace you." Hundreds of counter protesters, including the Nation of Islam, New Black Panthers, and Huey Newton Gun Club, American Indian Movement, and ANTIFA gathered in downtown Dayton, Ohio to protest members of the KKK. Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The scale of the counter-protest was more unexpected. After the Klan obtained a permit to protest months ago, city officials organized Dayton United Against Hate to rival them. A city official told Time that more than 350 police officers were brought in to keep the peace. No one was arrested or injured, a city official told Cleveland.com.

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The city spent $650,000 on police protection, police said. The KKK members were given a police escort for the day.

"This ugly chapter is over, but it means we have to get back to the real work - making sure that no matter what you look like, where you come from, or who you love, that you can have a great life here in Dayton," Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said on Twitter after the protest.
• An Alabama newspaper editor who called for the KKK to 'ride again' has been replaced by a black woman
• An Alabama newspaper editor called for mass lynchings and for the KKK to return and 'clean out DC'
• A Boston museum publicly apologized after a group of black students on a field trip said they were told, 'No food, no drink, no watermelon' </s> A branch of the Ku Klux Klan—the Honorable Sacred Knights of Madison, Indiana—planned a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday. But when the time came to march, only nine supporters of the group showed up downtown, and they were met by 500 to 600 counterprotesters rallying against racism.

City leaders feared a rerun of the tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. But this time the anti-racists massively outnumbered the racists in the city of 140,000 in western Ohio. Opponents of the Klan held signs that read: “You Are Not Welcome Here” and “Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere.”

According to Time, one popular sign among local businesses read, “Get your hatin’ out of Dayton”

“This ugly chapter is over, but it means we have to get back to the real work – making sure that no matter what you look like, where you come from, or who you love, that you can have a great life here in Dayton,” Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley tweeted afterwards. </s> A small group from the KKK-affiliated Honorable Sacred Knights out of Indiana gather for a rally in Dayton, Ohio, May 25, 2019

A small group of Ku Klux Klan members penned in by fencing, surrounded by police and drowned out by hundreds of protesters, held a rally in Ohio with no reported clashes or problems.

The city of Dayton blocked streets with large trucks Saturday and brought in officers from other jurisdictions to keep protesters separated from members of an obscure Klan group called the Honorable Sacred Knights.

The group obtained a permit for the rally months ago. City officials and community leaders organized an effort called Dayton United Against Hate.

The NAACP and other groups gathered in a public park about a mile from Dayton's downtown square where the Klan rally was held.

Dayton police says no one was arrested or injured.

The city urged people to stay away from downtown Saturday. </s> Jewish groups are bracing for a KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday that they fear will create a potential "powder keg."

According to , about 20 members of an Indiana-based KKK affiliate, the Honorable Sacred Knights, are expected to rally in downtown Dayton and, in an agreement with the city, will be allowed to mask their faces and carry legal sidearms.

As many as 1,000 counter-protesters are also expected, the news outlet reported — including the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, members of the Antifa movement, a militant conglomeration of left-wing anti-fascist groups.

Rabbi Ari Ballaban, local head of the Jewish Community Relations Council, told The Jerusalem Post there’s been "a wide-range of emotional responses" to the upcoming rally.

"We worked with the Anti-Defamation League, who helped to organize us with higher-level law enforcement organizations," Ballaban said.

"But none of us are fortune tellers. Do we know what is going to happen? Certainly not. That is why we are urging people: There is no reason to put yourself in a dangerous position and show up to something that is a powder keg."

The Dayton Jewish community numbers around 5,000 people, the Jerusalem Post reported, citing the Jewish Virtual Library. It has several congregations.

The city itself is on alert too, Jared Grandy, Dayton's Community-police relations coordinator, told the .

"The elephant in the room is Charlottesville," he said. "That's what we don’t want to happen again." </s> DAYTON, Ohio — A small group of Ku Klux Klan members penned in by fencing, surrounded by police and drowned out by protesters, held a rally in Ohio with no reported clashes or problems.

The city of Dayton blocked streets with large trucks Saturday and brought in officers from other jurisdictions to keep protesters separated from members of an obscure Klan group called the Honorable Sacred Knights.

The group obtained a permit for the rally months ago. City officials and community leaders organized an effort called Dayton United Against Hate.

The NAACP and other groups gathered in a public park about a mile from Dayton’s downtown square where the Klan rally was held.

The city urged people to stay away from downtown Saturday. </s> WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of about 30 white nationalists has marched to a park near the White House for what they call a rally in favor of white civil rights.

Thousands of counterprotesters are in the area, too, and jeered and heckled the white nationalists as they made their way down the street surrounded by police.

Makia Green, who represents the Washington branch of Black Lives Matter, told Sunday’s crowd that: “We know from experience that ignoring white nationalism doesn’t work.”

The counterprotesters planned to march to Lafayette Square in front of the White House, just before the arrival of the white nationalists. Police have erected a maze of barricades to keep the two sides apart.

The counterprotesters are expected to far outnumber the white nationalists.

The demonstration and counterdemonstration come on the anniversary of last year’s deadly gathering of neo-Nazis, skinheads, Ku Klux Klan members, and others in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Sunday’s gathering is being led by the principal organizer of last year’s “Unite the Right” event, Jason Kessler.
Hundreds of counter-protesters show up and protest against an estimated nine attendees of a planned rally by a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated group in Dayton, Ohio.