:Riot police have broken up a tense standoff between black and white protesters in a town in Texas.
- The conflict began with a march by 100 mostly African-American activists, who were unhappy at the state’s handling of the case of 24-year-old Brandon McClelland who was run over and killed by a vehicle.
- Speaking to US television network ABC, Brandon's mother Jacquiline said: "The reason for today's rally is to let everybody know how the justice system around here is really doing things."
- When the protesters reached the town square, the crowd of black demonstrators ballooned to around 200 people on one side of the street.
- Approximately a dozen white supremacists, including four skinheads carrying Nazi swastika flags, gathered on the other side.
- A skinhead and another white man were arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct, before the protesters separated peacefully.
- No blows were exchanged.
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