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Multiple people have been stabbed after clashes broke out during a rally outside State Capitol in Sacramento, California. The violence broke out between far-right activists from the Traditionalist Worker Party and counter-protesters.Multiple people have been stabbed after clashes broke out during a rally outside State Capitol in Sacramento, California. The violence broke out between far-right activists from the Traditionalist Worker Party and counter-protesters.
The Traditionalist Worker Party members, often described as a neo-Nazi group who have links to white supremacy and far-right causes, showed up for a planned rally at the Sacramento Capitol, where they were met by activists from Antifa Sacramento counter-protest, local media report. Antifa is an anti-fascist movement. The Traditionalist Worker Party members, often described as a neo-Nazi group who have links to white supremacy and far-right causes, showed up for a planned rally at the Sacramento Capitol, where they were met by activists from Antifa Sacramento counter-protest, local media report. 
Sacramento Fire Department (SFD) says five patients have been transported to nearby hospitals from the site of the incident, some of them in critical condition from stab wounds. They however didn’t specify which group the injured were from. The rally was organized by the TWP to “protest against globalization and in defense of the right to free expression” and was reportedly also attended by members of the Golden State Skinheads, Blood & Honor, National Socialist Movement and Ku Klux Klan.
Emergency vehicles are at the scene to provide medical aid. Sacramento Fire Department (SFD) said a total of seven patients were transported to nearby hospitals from the site of the incident, some of them in critical condition from stab wounds. They however didn’t specify which group the injured were from.
Bloodstains are also visible on the pavement in pictures posted on Twitter. No arrests were made according to a local ABC 10 network reporter, who captured some of the shocking violence that erupted between the groups, and said police used tear gas to disperse the rival protesters.
A local ABC 10 network reporter states police had to use tear gas to disperse the rival protesters. Traditionalist Worker Party (TradWorker) is a relatively new political wing of Matthew Heimbach’s Traditionalist Youth Network (TradYouth), which stands for “faith, family and folk.”
TradWorker says the group aims to lead Americans toward a future “free from economic exploitation, federal tyranny, and anti-Christian degeneracy.”
A Sacramento police officer told reporters at the scene that there are still protesters on the capitol grounds who have been permitted to “exercise their right to free speech” under the supervision of officers from multiple jurisdictions. “We will help you, your family, and your town while the other parties are fighting a thousand miles from home over how to help (or bomb) people ten thousand miles from home,” it says.
The group was listed as one of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘Advanced White Supremacy’ hate groups, active in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. 
A counter-protest was organised by Sacramento Antifa, an anti-fascist movement whose objective is to “force the Nazis off our streets and to send a strong message that they are not welcome in society and especially Sacramento.”