>>> TENSIONS ROSE IN DOWNTOWN RALEIGH AS DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS COLLIDED IN THE STREET. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. POLICE SHUT DOWN MULTIPLE STREETS AS THEY WORKED TO KEEP THE PEACE BETWEEN BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PROUD BOYS. >> Reporter: POLICE LINED JONES STREET SEPARATING THE TWO GROUPS AS THEY SHOUTED OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS AT EACH OTHER. KATHERINE FOWLER HAS ALWAYS EXERCISED HER RIGHT TO ROW TEST AND THIS YEAR, SHE HAS BEEN BUSY. DO YOU FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE GETTING MORE DIVIDED. >> NO, I THINK THAT DIVISION HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE. BUT IT IS GROWING NOW. >> Reporter: YOU COULD FEEL THAT ANGER AND DIVISION ON JONES STREET TODAY. FOWLER, A SUPPORTER OF BLACK LIVES MATTER AND GROUPS LIKE EMANCIPATE NC AND THE AC LUNCHTIME OF NORTH CAROLINA STOOD ON ONE SIDE. >> YOU TOLD ME TO COME OVER HERE. >> Reporter: WHILE MEMBERS OF REOPEN NC AND THE PROUD BOYS WHICH THE FBI HAS LABELED AS AN EXTREMIST GROUP WITH TIES TO WHITE NATIONALISM STOOD ON THE OTHER SIDE. ABOUT TWO AND A HALF HOURS INTO THE PROTEST, THE GROUPS SEPARATED EVEN MORE. MEMBERSOF REOPEN NC AND THE PROUD BOYS CHANTED IN FRONT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION CALLING FOR COOPER TO LOOSEN COVID RELATED RESTRICTIONS. BLACK LIVES MATTER SUPPORTERS STAYED ON JONES STREET. RALEIGH PLACE AND STATE POLICE COVERED THE AREA. WE SPOKE WITH BILL WICKER, A MEMBER OF THE BROWARD BOYS WHO TOOK ISSUE WITH THE GROUP'S IDENTIFICATION AS A HATE GROUP. OUR INTERVIEW WITH HIM WAS CUT SHORT AS OPPOSING PROTESTERS BEGAN SCREAMING. >> I STAND AGAINST THE MANDATE AND ALSO JUST TO ENSURE THAT. >> MUCH OF THE DAY'S INTERACTION BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS PLAYED OUT IN A SIMILAR FASHION. WHILE MANY POLICE STOOD CLOSE TO THE PROTESTERS, SOME STOOD FAR WAY THE A DISTANCE MONITORING THE SITUATION IN CASE THINGS BOILED OVER. KEITHY ARTHUR, WRAL NEWS. >>> SO HOW DID THINGED END? THOSE FOLK HAD STARTED UP