#Georgia police try to break up near-violent Stone Mountain protests

Heated and close to violent confrontations between armed right-wing militia members and black-masked counter-demonstrators were captured on video Saturday at Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia.

Rows of neatly black clad Antifa protesters lined up versus right wing militia in camo overalls.

“Motherf–king Nazi!” yelled one militia member to a member of what appeared to be the Atlanta Antifascists, who vowed ahead of time to counter-protest.

“I’ll eat your balls for breakfast!” screamed another on a Periscope livestream.

“He told me to go back to Africa!” said one African-American man.

As pepper spray streamed through the air, the verbal warfare was intense.

“Separating people by races is never a solution,” a young man, who appeared to be with the Antifa movement, said.

“It’s not 1864, motherf—ker!” said another.

Although local police insisted to the Post at 12:30 p.m. that it was a “peaceful protest,” cops in riot gear showed up 20 minutes later, just before 1 p.m. They yelled through megaphones for the crowd to disperse or face arrest.

The memorial — which features a nine-story high bas relief of Confederate “heroes” and slave owners Gen. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and “Stonewall” Jackson — closed to the public Saturday ahead of the anticipated militia rally.

The Three Percenters militia applied last month to run a rally of more than 2,000 people to “to defend and protect our history and second Amendment rights,” according to Reuters.

While the application was denied by local officials, citing violence at a similar event in 2016, Reuters reports several online groups, including one dubbed “Defending Stone Mountain,” vowed to march in the park anyway and asked participants to come with Confederate and US flags. Another group, the Atlanta Antifacists, vowed to hold a counter-protest.

The memorial has only been open for a month, and reopened after lockdown during July 4 weekend.

The site is a notorious meeting place for the Ku Klux Klan, which was “reborn” atop it.

In 1915, the KKK was brought back on that mountain with a burning cross and advocates of the carvings were card carrying members of the hate group. After the mountain was complete, “a ‘neo-Confederate theme park’ emerged around the site, including a plantation house, a “Gone With the Wind” museum, according to a report from the Atlanta History Center, The New York Times reported. Since then, KKK members have gathered at Stone Mountain annually to hold rallies, according to the Times.

The population of Stone Mountain is over 78% African-American, according to the US census — with whites making up just 18% — and African Americans also make up the majority of workers in and around the monument.

Black Lives Matters protestors and civil rights groups have long called for the destruction of the monument.