3 stabbed at Ku Klux Klan rally in Southern California
At least three people have been stabbed, one critically, during an anti-immigrant rally organized by the US white supremacist group of Ku Klux Klan in Anaheim, Southern California.
The incident happened on Saturday when a small group of the extremists clashed with a larger gathering of counter-protesters.
The violence erupted when nearly 30 anti-Klan protesters showed up before the rally and attacked six Klan members who arrived there later as they exited their cars, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Daron Wyatt.
“Immediately as the K.K.K. guys got out of their vehicle they were attacked by the counter-protesters,” he said. “That soon developed into several different fights between the two groups that were spread along the length of a city block.”
A witness video shows a man, saying "I got stabbed," lifting his T-shirt to show the wound to his stomach.
One Anaheim police sergeant said he saw another Klan member holding a knife and a counter-protester bleeding nearby.
A third stabbing victim was also found in a car on the east side of the park, police said.
Being one of the oldest and most infamous hate groups in the US, the Ku Klux Klan has targeted African Americans, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which studies hate groups.
The research group also said that there had been a rise in the number of America’s extremist groups over incendiary political rhetoric and hate crimes.
Extremist groups proliferated in the United States in 2015 and the number of far-right "hate groups" grew to 892 in 2015 from 784 the year before, the group said on February 17.
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