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Anger boiled over at the first Charlottesville City Council meeting since a white nationalist rally in the city descended into violent chaos, with some residents screaming and cursing at councilors Monday night and calling for their resignations.
Hundreds of people packed the council's chambers, CBS Charlottesville affiliate WCAV-TV reported. Many were there very upset about how the August 12 rally was handled and blamed several of the councilors, the station says.
Mayor Mike Signer was interrupted by shouting several times in the first few minutes of the meeting, The Daily Progress reported. As tensions escalated, the meeting was halted. Live video showed protesters standing on a dais with a sign that said, "Blood on your hands."
After talking with members of the crowd, Councilor Wes Bellamy said the council would drop its agenda and focus on the crowd's concerns, the newspaper reported.
originally posted by: Butterfinger
I dont like that our past enemies and human rights violators like Nazi and KKK haven't been forcibly disbanded yet.
I'm for free speech, but while waiving the nazi flag? KKK? They need to be added to the terrorist list, they have done nothing positive and so are only instigators of violence, along with ANTIFA.
I'm having an internal struggle with leaving any of the aforementioned mobs to "express" or "Protest" with the right to have rallies.
Maybe I'm missing something?
As far as the protest farse in Charlottesville, the blame lies right on the city for having stand down orders.
originally posted by: stosh64
a reply to: xuenchen
Funny, no stand down order given here.
Different when YOUR the ones being threatened, councilmen?
originally posted by: jjkenobi
originally posted by: Butterfinger
I dont like that our past enemies and human rights violators like Nazi and KKK haven't been forcibly disbanded yet.
I'm for free speech, but while waiving the nazi flag? KKK? They need to be added to the terrorist list, they have done nothing positive and so are only instigators of violence, along with ANTIFA.
I'm having an internal struggle with leaving any of the aforementioned mobs to "express" or "Protest" with the right to have rallies.
Maybe I'm missing something?
As far as the protest farse in Charlottesville, the blame lies right on the city for having stand down orders.
Hopefully you recognize the slippery slope that road leads to. Who makes the moral decisions on which groups are "good" and which groups are "bad"?
Sure there are several groups everyone can unilaterally denounce, but it never just ends there.
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: Asktheanimals
Who didn't have a permit?
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: GuidedKill
Yea I don't know why this is still a thing.
The city issued a total of three permits. One to Unite the Right, and two to counterprotest groups. The city rescinded Kessler's permit, and did not rescind the two permits that were issued to the counterprotest groups.
That's literally the entire basis for Kessler's lawsuit against the city: the city council voted to stop his rally by revoking his permit but did not vote to stop the counterprotesters' rally by revoking their permits. It's in his freaking lawsuit.
For a site that's supposed to be about denying ignorance, it's mind-boggling to see the same folks pushing the same disproven narrative thread after thread.
I think we should load them all in a coliseum and let then fight it out till the death...