From: KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, ALAN BLINDER and JESS BIDGOOD, "Protesters Flood Streets, and Trump Offers a Measure of Praise," New York Times (August 18, 2017)
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Excerpt:Tens of thousands of demonstrators, emboldened and unnerved by the
eruption of fatal violence in Virginia last weekend, surged into the nation’s streets
and parks on Saturday to denounce racism, white supremacy and Nazism.
Demonstrations were boisterous but broadly peaceful, even as tension and
worry coursed through protests from Boston Common, the nation’s oldest public
park, to Hot Springs, Ark., and to the bridges that cross the Willamette River in
Portland, Ore. Other rallies played out in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Memphis and
New Orleans, among other cities.
The demonstrations — which drew 40,000 people in Boston alone, according to
police estimates — came one week after a 32-year-old woman died amid clashes
between white nationalists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., and they
unfolded as the nation was again confronting questions about race, violence and the
standing of Confederate symbols.
President Trump, who has faced unyielding — and bipartisan — criticism after saying that there was “blame on both sides” in Charlottesville, tweeted Saturday that he wanted “to applaud the many protestors in Boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate. Our country will soon come together as one!” He also wrote: “Our great country has been divided for decades. Sometimes you need protest in order to heal, & we will heal, & be stronger than ever before!”[JB emphasis] ...
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A facebook comment (not mine) on the President's Tweetprop:
OK, obviously this was just a typo. He meant to say "heil"!
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