Tension at Trump, Black Lives Matter rallies in West Roxbury

Several dozen Black Lives Matter protesters surrounded a handful of people attending a small Trump rally in West Roxbury, burning a Trump sign and screaming until the cops drove the conservative organizer away.

About 10 people came out in support of President Trump at the Holy Name Rotary, wearing Make America Great Again apparel and waving flags, and around 50 people clad largely in black surrounded them, chanting slogans and yelling into megaphones. A semicircle of Boston Police officers separated the two sides.

The BLM side chanted at the other “Every day the same thing — bang bang oink oink.” They particularly trained insults on the Black Police officers present.

Someone on the tightly packed BLM side held up a Trump sign and burned it.

Trump rally organizer Diana Ploss and a few others eventually left, escorted by police — and were then followed by the chanting crowd, zig-zagging around the street.

“You’re all cowards,” Ploss yelled at the other side through the bullhorn she’d been shouting back at throughout the evening.

Cops eventually directed Ploss and another woman into a police car to get them out of the area. A BLM-side protester spat on the vehicle as it inched forward through the crowd.

BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: Trump supporters are evacuated after the protest as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: A protestor burns a Trump sign as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: The two groups exchanges words as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: Trump supporters are evacuated after the protest as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BPD pushes back the crowd as Trump supporters are removed from the protest in a BPD vehicle as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BPD pushes back the crowd as Trump supporters are removed from the protest in a BPD vehicle as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BPD pushes back the crowd as Trump supporters are removed from the protest in a BPD vehicle as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BPD pushes back the crowd as Trump supporters are removed from the protest in a BPD vehicle as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BPD pushes back the crowd as Trump supporters are removed from the protest in a BPD vehicle as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: Police escort the trump supporters away form the BLM as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: A protestor burns a Trump sign as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: An elderly woman is let out of the crowd as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: A few trump supporters are surrounded as BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON MA. - SEPTEMBER 30: BLM and Trump supporters clash in JP on September 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)