Hundreds of people attended a rally Saturday against hate. The Claremont for Peace rally was held at Memorial Park to counter a neo-Nazi rally by the National Socialist Movement. About 30 people attended the neo-Nazi rally, police said.
The neo-Nazi event was held at Foothill and Indian Hill boulevards.
The white supremacist demonstrators rallied for an hour and a half to oppose illegal-immigrant enrollment at the nearby Claremont Colleges.
Between 300 and 500 counterdemonstrators rallied nearby. Between 200 and 300 others held a separate peace rally in opposition to the white supremacists in a park four blocks away.
About 110 officers were deployed at the white supremacist rally. There were no arrests and no reported injuries or property damage.
In an email before the event, Claremont for Peace said it had called the rally "in the name of peace, celebrating social justice, love and intercultural understanding."
The group is an ad-hoc collective formed to create an organized response to the National Socialist Movement's hateful messages, the group stated.
Southern California Public Radio
