DAYTON, Ohio — An Ohio city is estimating it spent about $650,000 on security for a rally attended by a small group of Ku Klux Klan members and hundreds of protesters.
Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein says the city spent about $250,000 on personnel and about $400,000 on materials ahead of the rally on Saturday.
Dickstein tells the Dayton Daily News there’s no way to recapture the spent funds but notes that safety measures were needed because “the world has changed greatly.”
Nine people showed up for a KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio. They were drowned out by 600 protestors https://t.co/5RbD961nt9 pic.twitter.com/EIgjqkngNU
— TIME (@TIME) May 26, 2019
There were no reported clashes or problems at the downtown rally. The city blocked streets with large trucks and brought in officers from other jurisdictions to keep protesters separated from members of an obscure Klan group called the Honorable Sacred Knights.
Thousands of people have gathered in downtown Dayton, Ohio, to protest a rally held by a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated group from Indiana. https://t.co/nzJRCK1dnX
— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) May 25, 2019
The group obtained a permit for the rally months ago.
