A accent by alt-right baton Richard Spencer in Gainesville, Florida on Thursday brought white nationalists and protesters from beyond the country. The accident sparked violence, including a cutting that led to the arrest of three people.
But amidst the violence, one protester approved to defeat abhorrence with love.
The video shows a atramentous man, articular by the New York Daily News as Aaron Courtney, grab a man cutting T-shirt emblazoned with swastikas.
"Give me a (expletive) hug," Courtney said. "Why you don't like me, though?"
“I could accept hit him, I could accept aching him ... but article in me said, ‘You apperceive what? He aloof needs love,” Courtney said, according to the Daily News.
The man cutting the swastika shirt was articular by the Gainesville Sun as Randy Furniss of Idaho. At the aforementioned event, Furniss was photographed actuality punched in the face by a protester.
Alex Hider is a biographer for the E.W. Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @alexhider.
