Ku Klux Klan rally begins amid tension in Charlottesville

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

CHARLOTTESVILLE — A rally here by the Ku Klux Klan and its supporters to protest the Charlottesville city council’s decision to remove a statue honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee encountered a loud and angry counterprotest Saturday afternoon.

Members of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which is based in Pelham, North Carolina near the Virginia border, gathered at Justice Park, situated in a quiet, leafy residential neighborhood in downtown Charlottesville. They shouted “white power” and some wore white robes.

About 30 Klansmen were escorted to and from the rally by police in riot gear who were out on a hot day to separate the rally-goers and approximately 1,000 counterprotesters who greeted them with jeers. Attempts by Klan leaders to address the crowd were repeatedly drowned out by boos and chants. Some of the Klan members arrived armed, carrying handguns in holsters at their belts. 

The rally was held about a block away from Emancipation Park — the renamed Lee Park — where the statue of Lee astride a horse still stands. Charlottesville police reported that vandals had painted messages in green and red paint on the statue overnight.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ku-klux-klan-rally-begins-amid-tension-in-charlottesville/ar-BBE0Hqf?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[jmowreader]

1. Thirty of them, huh?

[Yonnie3]

2. More than one media outlet showed the Stonewall Jackson staute ...

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in Justice (formerly Jackson) park when they mentioned the Lee statue in the other park.

***my statement below is incorrect***
Police had to clear a street with tear gas in order for the Kluckers to drive away. The media reports it as if there were a thousand people in the street when in reality there were several dozen who refused to move.
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MSN's reporting is reasonably correct.

Edit to correct: ***I've viewed five videos and the KKK vehicles had left BEFORE the teargas was used. The news reports I relied on were incorrect, so it wasn't just the statue they screwed up on.

[Achilleaze]

3. snowflake republican klansmites disgrace themselves

as usual