Hatred has no space in Houston, mayor says

HOUSTON, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Sunday that it is the time to draw a red line to keep the city from being divided by hate groups and anti-minority groups.

“Now is the time more than ever, now is the time, especially as leaders at our level to draw a red line,” the mayor said in a TV speech.

“When it comes to Nazi groups, when it comes to the KKK, when it comes to the white supremacists and white nationalism … we cannot be ambiguous,” Turner said.

His remarks came a day after a 20-year-old man killed a woman and hurt 19 others as he rammed his car into counter protesters at a white nationalist rally near the University of Virginia.

On Sunday evening, hundreds of people attended a vigil in the Houston City Hall to support Virginia victims and to denounce the hatred expressed during the rally in the State of Virginia.

Thousands of white nationalists, neo-Confederates and right-wing protesters, as well as groups that oppose them, clashed on Sunday during the “Unite the Right” demonstrations that took place in Charlottesville, a historic college town in the state of Virginia bordering U.S. capital Washington D.C. .