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Friday, September 01, 2017

Charlottesville police ordered to stand down at white supremacist rally, federal lawsuit claims

Robert Sanchez Turner claims cops turned blind eye to violence on the ground at Aug. 12 rally

A man who was assaulted during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is suing the city and state police, alleging that officers were ordered to stand down and failed to act even as they witnessed the attack.

According to the federal lawsuit, Robert Sanchez Turner was sprayed in the eye with pepper spray and beaten with canes, and had urine thrown on him during the Aug. 12 rally in Charlottesville, as police officers stood less than 10 feet away and did nothing to stop the assault or arrest the assailants.

“By commanding their subordinates to stand down while hundreds of white supremacists and their sympathizers assaulted and seriously injured counterprotesters, these defendants were essentially accessories to, and facilitators of, unconstitutional hate crime,” states the lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times.

Nexus Caridades Attorneys, which filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, is expected to announce additional details about the case Friday.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not much different than the stand-down ordered in Baltimore!

Anonymous said...

It was not a "white supremacist rally" it was a rally of people who support their heritage and they don't want General Lee's statue removed. I am sick and tired of the Left and media calling anything white people do white supremacy. There is going to be a time when white people have enough and they are going to explode. That time clock is ticking.