'Straight Pride' Group Brawls With Pro-Choice Activists at Protest
Police used pepper ball guns to clear a clash between pro-choice and anti-choice activists outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Modesto, Calif., on Saturday.
Three people were arrested after counter-protesters descended on a "straight pride" event outside the clinic.In one video posted by the director of the One People's Project, Daryle Lamong Jenkins, smoke grenades and glass bottles appear to have been thrown. "We got shit going down at the opposition to the straight pride rally in Modesto, CA.
Cops have just declared an unlawful assembly afte[r] the fash showed up," he wrote.Modesto Police had warned on Facebook earlier in the day, shortly before 10 a.m.
local time, that the department was aware of and prepared for possible clashes. However, less than 90 minutes later, at 11:17 a.m.
