U.S. Authorities Consider Shutting Down Hard-Right Rallies After Charlottesville By Graham Lanktree On 8/17/17 at 9:06 AM A series of hard-right rallies planned for the coming weeks are under threat of being shut down after a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville left one counter-protester dead last weekend. In San Francisco, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) said it is deciding whether to pull the permit of a group called Patriot Prayer, which has organized a “Freedom Rally” in the city’s Crissy Park below the Golden Gate bridge on August 26.