Tensions mounted Sunday evening when a counter-protester stood face to face with a crowd of protesters in front of the State Capitol.
A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS AND A SIGN. WE'RE NOT SURE ABOUT THIS GENTLEMAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND WHAT THEY ARE SAYING WE DID HEAR FROM WHAT APPEARED TO BE A COUNTER PROTESTER TELLING THE PROTESTERS TO BACK UP FROM POLICE. BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE IS A CONFRONTATION AT THIS POINT BETWEEN THE GENTLEMAN IN THE BLUE POLO SHIRT AND THE PROTESTERS SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE JUST RODE UP ON THEIR BIKE AND TELLING HIM TO LEAVE. SO THEY PULLED OUT THEIR PHONES PEOPLE ARE GETTING A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO THIS GENTLEMAN AND ACTUALLY, THE COUNTER PROTESTERS I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT IN HIS KILT WAS ANOTHER ONE OF THE GENTLEMAN TELLING THEM TO BACK UP FROM POLICE NOW WE'RE HEARING THE CHANTS OF BLACK LIVES MATTER. TENSIONS ARE HIGH RIGHT NOW AS YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE PROTESTERS STARTING TO CIRCLE THIS MAN, HE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PHASED. HE'S NOT BACKING DOWN HE HAS SOME KIND OF OPINION. BUT I'M NOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO HEAR EXACTLY WHAT THAT IS AND I'M NOT GOING TO GO ANY CLOSER AS WE ARE STANDING NEXT TO 50- 60 POLICE OFFICERS IN FULL RIOT GEAR PROTECTING THIS INTERSECTION. TRAFFIC IS STILL MOVING BEHIND US AS THESE PROTESTERS HAVE CONTINUED TO GATHER AND THIS CROWD HAS GROWN AND IT'S NOW KIND OF FORMING A CIRCLE AROUND US. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE A SLOW PAN AROUND TO SEE HOW THE POLICE COULD AT SOME POINT BECOME CIRCLED BY THE PROTESTERS BECAUSE THEY'RE NOW LINING THIS MORGAN STREET HERE BY THE DOZENS AND IT DOES APPEAR THAT THE GROUP IS GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER. WE'RE NOT SURE IF THAT IS THE CASE. FROM MY VANTAGE POINT WHEN I LOOK DOWN SALISBURY STREET, I SEE A SEA OF PROTESTERS OBVIOUSLY VERY ANGRY. BACK TO THIS -- COUNTER PROTESTER. IT SEEMS LIKE HE'S GETTING HECKLED BY THE CROWD SOME PEOPLE ARE HOLDING OTHER PEOPLE BACK AND THEY'RE HOPING FOR HIS SAFETY. HE IS RILING UP THE CROWD. AS MORE PEOPLE MOVE INTO THE STREET. HE IS VERY, VERY ANGRY. LET'S SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. IF YOU ARE STILL LIVE TAKING THIS SHOT. WE ARE SEEING WHAT APPEARS TO BE A COUNTER PROTESTER BEING CIRCLED AND YELLED AT BY SOME OF THE PROTESTERS THEY DID NOT APPEAR TO BE TOUCHING HIM. HE IS STANDING HIS GROUND. AND SOME OF THE PROTESTERS ARE TELLING OTHERS TO BACK OFF AS SOME PHOTOGRAPHERS GET IN TO TRY TO GET AN EYE AS WE COMES WITHIN ABOUT A FEET OF SOME OF THESE PROTESTERS THERE IS SOME HOSTILITY THERE. I CAN'T HELP BUT TO POINT OUT THIS MEMORIAL TO THE LEFT, I CAME UP IN, MEMORIAL FOR GEORGE FLOYD, DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. THAT WOULD BE RIGHT NEAR WHERE CARS DRIVE ON MORGAN STREET AND YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THESE PROTESTERS ON THE SIDE THAT ARE REALLY WATCHING THIS ACTION IN THE MIDDLE OF WHATEVER HAS UNFOLDED. AND WE ARE SEEING THIS COUNTER PROTESTER NOW SHOUTING AT A YOUNG WOMAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CROWD AND WE ARE SEEING OTHER PROTESTERS HOLDING THAT WOMAN BACK FROM GETTING INTO THAT GENTLEMAN'S FACE AS HE IS CIRCLED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE. I WANT TO TALK TO THIS GENTLEMAN. CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION? DO YOU KNOW WHAT EXACTLY THIS IS OVER? >> THIS GUY HERE IN THE MIDDLE, HE'S CAUSING THE PROBLEM. HE WANTED TO TALK. HE WANTED TO SHARE HIS OPINION, HIS OPINIONS ARE NOT WHAT THE PROTEST IS ABOUT. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO BASICALLY SHUT HIM DOWN. IF HE JUST LEAVES, THIS CROWD WILL BE MUCH BETTER. >> HE WAS ONE OF ONLY ONE OR TWO PEOPLE HAVING AN OPPOSING VIEW. THIS GUY WANTS TO RILE THINGS UP. >> AS WE GO INTO THIS. IT SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE IS PULLING HIM FROM THE CROWD AS THINGS DO GET A LITTLE MORE VIOLENT. HE'S BEING PULLED FROM THE CROWD AND HOPEFULLY THIS GENTLEMAN IS OKAY. THE GENTLEMAN IN THE WHITE SHIRT WAS HELPING THE COUNTER PROTESTER OUT OF THE CROWD WHEN HE JUST FELL ONTO THE GROUND. THIS GUY IS GROWING ANGRY. THE GENTLEMAN IS TRYING TO DEESCALATE TENSIONS HERE AT WEST MORGAN STREET AND SALISBURY STREET. THIS PERSON STEPPING IN TO SAY PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO GO. THESE TWO PEOPLE, THE GUY IN THE GREEN AND THE GENTLEMAN IN THE BLUE POLO WHO HAD OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS NOW THAT GENTLEMAN WHO WE JUST TALKED TO IS TRYING TO GET THEM OUT. THE GENTLEMAN IN THE WHITE SHIRT STANDING IN FRONT OF ME IS CHOKING THE COUNTER PROTESTER AND TRYING TO GET HIM OUT. LET'S TRY TO LISTEN IN.
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