Police Investigate Attack Of Interracial Couple After TN White Lives Matter Rally

(171027) -- Shelbyville, October 27, 2017 -- A white nationalist wears a hat with "rebel" during a White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States on October 27, 2017. (Photo by Emily Molli/NurPhoto... (171027) -- Shelbyville, October 27, 2017 -- A white nationalist wears a hat with "rebel" during a White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States on October 27, 2017. (Photo by Emily Molli/NurPhoto/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) MORE LESS
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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee say they are searching for a man who allegedly hit a white woman who was seated at a pub with a black man.

Nashville police said in a statement Sunday that a group of white men and women entered the pub in Brentwood and sat behind the couple. A group member invited the woman to sit with them, and another member indicated the group was involved in the “White Lives Matter” movement.

The woman said a man then hit her in the face, causing a cut above her eye. She declined treatment.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the man being sought was part of the large group.

White nationalist groups rallied Saturday in Shelbyville. A second rally in Murfreesboro, about 33 miles southeast of Brentwood, was canceled.

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