Virginia State Police cleared Emancipation Park Saturday after a white nationalist demonstration turned violent, but the action forced attendees into a crowd of counter-protesters.
The rally was organized as a protest to the ordered removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in downtown Charlottesville, Va. The rally was named the “Unite the Right” rally, but attendees largely identified as white nationalists or white supremacists when asked by reporters on the ground. Both Black Lives Matter and then antifa declared they would bring members to Charlottesville to protest the rally, setting up a showdown between the two groups.
The white nationalists applied for a permit from City Hall, and originally obtained a permit for McIntire Park, a location roughly a mile and a half away from the statue. But white supremacist Richard Spencer declared that the group would meet at the much smaller Emancipation Park, the home of the famed Lee statue. City Hall approved the permit Friday evening.
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4 comments:
It's not the police dept's fault that these two groups fought. Both groups went there with a purpose, they brought weapons, THEY are responsible for their actions.
The first paragraph should read "...after a white nationalist demonstration turned violent due to the actions of BLM and Antifa...."
I feel sorry for the police when the sreallyhtf. They are gonna be right in-between a rock and a hard place.
10:04 Your bias knows no bounds.
Only the White group had a permit. The others should have been arrested for marching without a permit.
Secondly the article is clear the Cops forced the whites to walk through the BLM and Antifa illegal protesters. Illegal as they had no permit. The cops only cleared out the ones with the permit not those without the permit. Clearly unequal justice.
Clearly the cops worked hand in hand with BLM and Antifa to deny freedom of speech and freedom of speech was denied. A very dark day for freedom indeed.
There was no freedom just mob rule. Complete lack of protection by law enforcement of those legally protesting. To favor those illegally protesting.
Law enforcement wanted to deny free speech and so they did deny free speech. End of story.
It is also possible the driver was Antifa. We do not have solid information yet. He had black friends though. Does not sound like a white nationalist. Antifa does research white groups to attack them.
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