The ‘Demand Free Speech’ rally kicked off on Saturday at Washington DC’s Freedom Plaza, just blocks from the White House. Trump supporters, nationalists and various other right-wing groups turned out to hear speeches from conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, as well as a gaggle of hopeful politicians courting the vote of the disaffected right.

Perhaps anticipating a rerun of last weekend’s violent Proud Boys/Antifa clashes in Portland, Oregon, DC police closed roads for two blocks in all directions around Freedom Plaza, and manned barricades to keep left-wing counter-protesters away from the right-wingers.

The counter-protesters assembled across the street in Pershing Park, where Black Lives Matter, LGBT and socialist groups gave rival speeches. Among the crowd were black-clad Antifa activists, who covered their faces with masks and donned helmets.

The leftist protesters were reluctant to grant press access to their rally, and circulated a set of media guidelines warning journalists to “avoid publishing any potentially incriminating photos or video footage.”