Something that surprised me was how comfortable the #LittleRock police were around these guys. The cops made them all confirm that they were carrying unloaded, but didn’t make them place it on ground to check etc.

Like this is is a selective screenshot from the video before. I understand it was momentary, but this guy inadvertently pointed a gun at a cop and nobody said anything about it.

This in contrast to police shootings over phones or “reaching” for nothing, etc.

Here are some of the #Antifa counter-demonstrators that showed up. There were probably 3-4x as many counter-demonstrators as the white nationalists, and as many cops as both sides combined.

A big theme for antifa was #ICE, who they see as the enforcement arm of a nazi agenda.

I’ve heard that these guys are planning on burning a new fascist symbol of some kind (like the cross or swastika burnings, but something else) and am heading to that location now. ETA 30 minutes.

So the Nazis were mostly ok with me filming the bonfire (and one even gave me the address). The property owner though saw that they allowed press and said “no way.” Apparently NBC did a story on him and now he doesn’t trust media now. My Uber driver who got me here saved me.

Here’s the sign they had posted outside the place. This was some deep backwoods stuff they had planned. I know Vice also planned to go, not sure if they were late and are about to be kicked out, or early and kicked out before me.

One guy actually took his knife out and asked whether I thought it could go through my bulletproof vest. I said something like “no, but I appreciate you not stabbing me” and he holstered it and said “you ain’t done nothing to me.”

All things considered, I’m ok with skipping it.

One fascinating element of the bit I saw before being booted was the division of pagans and Christians. Property owner said “I’m a Christian, I can’t watch that, it’s bad luck” because their burning ritual is with a pagan symbol.

I just got to my Airbnb, so I'm safe and sound. Starting to import my HD footage from the day and I'll have some highlights and observations to share.

Big thanks to @aletweetsnews for sharing my live feed on @N2Sreports today.

So I'm importing my footage now and will post some highlights as I look through.

From before the event: Here's what nazi / cop small talk sounds like: Cop gives nazi advice about making his rifle lighter by using sight with newer tech and smaller battery.

Woah. I was just sent these photos. Apparently this is what they set up after I got kicked out.