Attendees at this Saturday’s Patriot Prayer rally at San Francisco’s Crissy Field will face a fecal minefield created by angry dog owners.
The National Park Service granted permission to a group called Patriot Prayer Wednesday to hold a First Amendment rally near the Golden Gate Bridge, but hundreds of citizens have organized to make sure their marching is a messy affair. A Facebook page called “Leave your dog poop on Crissy Field” has generated enough interest to make the Aug. 26 “Freedom Rally” a filthy experience for attendees, cops and counterprotesters.
A 45-year-old artist identified as Tuffy Tuffington spoke to The Guardian of his effort.
“I just had this image of alt-right people stomping around in the poop,” the activist told the newspaper Thursday. “It seemed like a little bit of civil disobedience where we didn’t have to engage with them face to face.”
One resident, Kit Stycket, offered a “55 gal drum full” Friday.
Cleve Jones, a labor and LGBTQ rights activist, told the newspaper that Patriot Prayer’s detractors can be divided into a handful of factions.
“You have a significant number of people who would like to go and punch Nazis, and then you have people who think they should be entirely ignored,” Jones said. “In between you have all sorts of creative and crazy ideas. I kind of like that.”
Some critics of Patriot Prayer’s event — including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — have labeled it a “white supremacist” rally. Organizer Joey Gibson told Fox News this week that he will use his permit’s authority to kick out “anybody [who] shows up with a [racist] flag or uses hateful rhetoric.”
“Nancy Pelosi said it was a white supremacist rally so she could bring out extremists on the right and the left,” Mr. Gibson told the network Wednesday. “She’s telling white supremacists to come into town.”
Ms. Pelosi’s office did not respond to Fox’s request for comment.
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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