White nationalist Richard Spencer met by protesters at University of Florida
White nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term “alt-right,” speaks at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida in Gainesville on Thursday.
(Joe Raedle / Getty Images)Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency as the University of Florida campus braced for a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer.
People react as white nationalist Richard Spencer speaks in Gainesville, Fla. Spencer was frequently met with protest chants.
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Protesters chant and hold signs at the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer on the University of Florida campus on Thursday.
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Richard Spencer initially protested the boos and chants as suppression of his speech, but later began taking questions from audience members, who variously asked him why he hadn’t left yet or how he could form a white ethno-state without performing violent ethnic cleansing.
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Police monitor the scene as protesters gather near the site of a speech by a white nationalist on Thursday.
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A man stands on a Nazi flag and an Antifa flag near the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville.
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Protesters hold a rally ahead of white nationalist Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida.
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Sam Hyde of Houston, who was wearing a Nazi SS pin on his shirt, talks to the media before the speech by a white nationalist.
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A man protests a scheduled speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
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Police monitor the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida on Thursday.
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White nationalist Richard Spencer is joined onstage by controversial talk radio host Mike Enoch, left.
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Police on a nearby rooftop monitor the scene at the site of the speech on the University of Florida campus.
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Police check the bags of journalists entering the site of the Richard Spencer event.
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