Metro Won't Set Aside Trains For White Supremacists: Report

WASHINGTON, DC -- A proposal to have white supremacists ride separate trains to a rally in D.C. this weekend has been abandoned, according to a report.

White supremacists will be demonstrating near the White House for the Aug. 12 "Unite the Right" rally, a sequel to the deadly rally in Charlottesville last year that culminated in an alleged white supremacist driving a car into a crowd of leftist counter-protesters.

Fearing more violence in D.C., officials reportedly had considered running a separate train to escort white supremacists to their rally. However, the Washington Post reports that Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans says that they've ruled that out.

Officials may have abandoned the move because of the tremendous backlash to the proposal. Critics argued that white supremacists would be getting special treatment from the government, and some even called it a form of segregation, the Post said.

Evans reportedly said that Metro was simply trying to avoid violence between rally attendees and counter-protesters.

The event is being organized by Jason Kessler, who was behind the Charlottesville "Unite the Right Rally" that resulted in three deaths -- a woman who was struck by the car allegedly driven by a white supremacist, and two Virginia state troopers died after their helicopter crashed while conducting surveillance of the event.

The permit issued to Kessler permits a "white civil rights" rally in Lafayette Square to protest "civil rights abuse in Charlottesville." Lafayette Square is the park located on the north side of the White House.

The rally is unlikely to be as heavily attended as the Charlottesville rally, but authorities are concerned even small numbers of white supremacists could lead to violence.

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