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originally posted by: knoxie
I always hear Muslims aren't doing enough to stop ISIS.. what are Christians/white people doing to stop the KKK/Nazis/White Supremacists?
yet the counter protesters are being demonized in this scenario. unbelievable.
originally posted by: TownCryer
a reply to: shooterbrody
Hilarious! I'd bet a fortune you never invoked the ACLU previously in your life. So, Breitbart telling you the ACLU is suing the VA police for not providing enough protection means, to you, that the Nazi's were setup? How were they setup? They chose to travel to the 'rally'. They chose to take weapons with them. They chose to yell inciting rhetoric, designed to provoke. Then, one of the Nazis drove his car into a crowd of people, simply because those people weren't also Nazis. No setup. The Nazi's planned to go to VA to cause trouble. Mission accomplished. They should be rooted out and punished in a traditional Nazi manner. I'm sure they'd love it.
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: Asktheanimals
Interesting how you keep popping up with your "I have no idea why people are calling this a white supremacist/Nazi/whatever thing because muh statue."
Answer remains the same as before: all the guys running around with Nazi regalia and chanting Nazi slogans made it about something other than a statue.
And yes, I remember that you like to imagine that anybody dressing up as a redneck white power fella is only doing it because somebody paid them to. Evil is scary, so it's better to pretend it doesn't exist.
originally posted by: TownCryer
a reply to: shooterbrody
Hilarious! I'd bet a fortune you never invoked the ACLU previously in your life. So, Breitbart telling you the ACLU is suing the VA police for not providing enough protection means, to you, that the Nazi's were setup? How were they setup? They chose to travel to the 'rally'. They chose to take weapons with them. They chose to yell inciting rhetoric, designed to provoke. Then, one of the Nazis drove his car into a crowd of people, simply because those people weren't also Nazis. No setup. The Nazi's planned to go to VA to cause trouble. Mission accomplished. They should be rooted out and punished in a traditional Nazi manner. I'm sure they'd love it.
Black Block Antifa activists, these were mostly just college kids.
originally posted by: TownCryer
a reply to: shooterbrody
Hilarious! I'd bet a fortune you never invoked the ACLU previously in your life. So, Breitbart telling you the ACLU is suing the VA police for not providing enough protection means, to you, that the Nazi's were setup? How were they setup? They chose to travel to the 'rally'. They chose to take weapons with them. They chose to yell inciting rhetoric, designed to provoke. Then, one of the Nazis drove his car into a crowd of people, simply because those people weren't also Nazis. No setup. The Nazi's planned to go to VA to cause trouble. Mission accomplished. They should be rooted out and punished in a traditional Nazi manner. I'm sure they'd love it.
originally posted by: TownCryer
a reply to: Grambler
No I don't think the city planned this. I'm not prone to imagine grandiose conspiracy theories. I don't think the city admins got together and decided they'd take on the hate groups that showed up in their town because of some secret desire to have the protest blow up. I think that the police in that town under estimated the level of violent hatred that would be filling their streets. They under estimated the depth to which those hate groups would descend to satisfy their twisted sense of patriotism. Now that the country has been shocked by the events in VA, the hate groups will have a more difficult time meeting in large numbers again. You saw the the U of TX already cancelled a planned sequel event?
Law enforcement was on hand at the dueling demonstrations on Saturday, decked out in riot gear and looking prepared for the worst. Except they weren’t allowed to do their job. Police on the scene were reported to have been ordered to “not intervene until given command to do so,” according to the ACLU. That kept them from suppressing the numerous scuffles that broke out.
When police were ordered to disperse the alt-right rally, that act directed the white nationalists into the antifa demonstrators, leading to further street brawls. Police didn’t seem to try to get in between the two groups or suppress the fights.
As ProPublica reported, state police and National Guardsmen mostly stood aside and watched as the violence grew worse.
This appears to be a direct result of what appears to be a stand down order from higher-ups.
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When the alt-right rally was mostly dispersed, police still seemed a missing presence in the city as the leftists kept demonstrating, some armed with aluminum bats and other weapons. This is the scene where the white nationalist drove his car through pedestrians, with police seemingly far away from the action.
That absence allowed for a female reporter who was an eyewitness to the intentional crash to be allegedly punched in the face by antifa. The reason: because she was press.
Curiously, this attack on a journalist hasn’t netted much attention.
The chaos seems like it could have been contained and fewer people hurt if police were a more active presence in Charlottesville.
originally posted by: comawhite12
a reply to: Dfairlite
I said the same thing.
It was orchestrated from the beginning when they pushed to have HISTORY deleted. They knew the nazis would come, and they knew they would send their masked minions.
The left's treachery couldn't be more obvious.
originally posted by: seeker1963
Check out who Brennan Gilmore is. The guy who recorded the car video!
Who is Brennon Gilmore?