Arrest made at white nationalist rally in Tennessee

Police have arrested one member of a white nationalist rally in Shelbyville, Tenn., though officials say confrontations between “White Lives Matter” protesters and counterprotesters remained mostly peaceful.

ABC News reported that a young white male was arrested by several police officers and taken away in a golf cart.

The rally was organized by the League of the South, an organization designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “neo-Confederate hate group.” {mosads}

The group’s leader Michael Hill spoke at the rally using a megaphone, but was largely drowned out by counterprotesters blaring “La Bamba” and other songs through loudspeakers.

No incidents of violence have been reported at the rally, unlike others this year. At the August rally in Charlottesville, Va., a counterprotester was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of pedestrians.

A statement Saturday afternoon from Shelbyville’s city manager thanked police for ensuring the rally did not turn violent.

“The safety measures that were put into place along with the enforcement of local, state, and federal laws ensured that this rally was not one of violence,” the statement reads.

A request for more information from Shelbyville’s police department from The Hill was not immediately answered.