A clash between protesters demonstrating against a convention of prison operators in town and a group of counter-protesters roiled Boylston Street (August 4) in Boston, Massachusetts.

The March Against Cages protesters then chased the counter-protesters from the Boston Public Library to the Massachusetts Avenue T station. The two groups went nose-to-nose on several occasions, though no physical violence broke out, aside from a hat being knocked off someone’s head.

During the peaceful protest, protestors shouted "close the camps" to speak out against what event organizers are calling human rights violations at ICE detention facilities.

Hundreds of people from dozens of organizations protested in Boston on Sunday, August 4th against the American Correctional Association to condemn their support for mass incarceration and immigrant detention. At one point someone at the conference shouted down, "Fuck you!" to the protesters. The protesters replied by chanting "Close the camps!" It's difficult to see in the video but there were people looking down from the second and third floor windows of the Hynes Convention Center during the entire protest.

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