Fights broke out in a Connecticut town as a white supremacist leader gave a speech inside a local library. Matthew Hale, leader of the World Church of the Creator, decided to give a speech in Wallingford after he learned that the town’s mayor had been reluctant to grant municipal workers a paid holiday for Martin Luther King Day.
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