At Least 10 Stabbed At Ca. Rally Organized By Towson University Grad

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/WJZ) -- At least ten people have been stabbed at a California rally that was organized in part by a graduate of Towson University.

Members of right-wing extremist groups clashed with counter-protesters outside the California state Capitol building in Sacramento, according to the Associated Press.

Emergency crews transported ten people who were stabbed -- two of them with life-threatening injuries. Many others had cuts, scrapes and bruises.

Matthew Heimbach, chairman of the Traditionalist Worker Party and organizer of an unsanctioned "White Student Union" at Towson University, told the Los Angeles Times that his group and the Golden State Skinheads had scheduled and received a permit to protest at noon Sunday. A group showed up to demonstrate against them.

The "white student union" was never recognized by the university, said a Towson spokesperson, adding that many of the group's members were not even students.

Heimbach, who graduated in the spring of 2013, said that in the clash, one of their marchers had been stabbed in an artery and six of the "anti-fascists" had also been stabbed.

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