Small groups of counter-demonstrators, dressed in black with printed Celtic crosses or in camouflage gear, dotted the route.
From there, groups of counter-protesters, some wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts, rallied with megaphones in small crowds on the downtown mall, occasionally verbally sparring with individuals who claimed to be members of the far-right.
The agreement emerged Thursday at meetings in St .Petersburg, Russia, involving the World Diamond Council, an industry body, and a United Nations-backed group called the Kimberley Process, set up by countries, diamond industry representatives and advocacy groups to counter sales of so-called blood diamonds.
Residents of Michoacan say they formed vigilante groups to counter the wave of extorsion, kidnappings and murders perpetrated by the purportedly religious Knights Templar cartel.
At that point, they ran into another group of counter-protesting locals, who were African-American.
In Washington, O'Neill became part of a close-knit group of counter-terrorism experts which formed around Richard Clarke.
Speaking to a few dozen liberal activists and to a smaller group of counter-protesters, who were waving Confederate flags, Bryant said, "We are in 2016.
Then a dark-gray Dodge Challenger drove into a large group of counter-protesters, killing one person, a thirty-two-year-old woman, and injuring nineteen others.
A few major drug seizures by a professional group of counter-narcotics agents would make drug traffickers change their perception of West Africa as a low risk/high benefit transit route.
Officers confiscated bricks, sticks, hammers, and makeshift wooden shields, and, after announcing over a loudspeaker that some of their comrades had been assaulted, herded one group of counter-demonstrators away from the park with pepper balls and stun grenades.
A much larger group of counter-protestors hurled insults back.
