Attendees of Pro Police Rally Chant “Kill the Transgenders”

Shaler Township, located just outside Pittsburgh, found itself home to a Back The Blue Rally on Sunday, July 26th designed to confront a Black Live Matter protest that was happening simultaneously in the small suburb.

Those who arrived to support the Back The Blue Rally were donned in Trump gear, waving American flags and occasionally chanted “Trump 2020” and “All Lives Matter” as they attempted to drown out the Black Lives Matter activists.

In rural and suburban neighborhoods across the swath of middle America that are more firmly conservative, efforts to organize and host Black Lives Matter demonstrations against increasingly deadly police brutality levied against the black community have been met with bigger swells of opposition against the movement. In the small town of Bedford, Michigan, Black Lives Matter protesters marched down a street toward the munitions shop of a local politician who had made multiple racist posts on social media. Upon reaching their destination, they came face to face with a larger crowd of white people, many clothed in Pro-Trump hats and T-shirts, perched on rooftops and armed with assault rifles as they endured a frenzy of racist slurs and death threats.

In Shaler Township, those who portrayed their demonstration as intended to support Police turned their…