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spanone

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Fri Aug 18, 2017, 08:38 AM Aug 2017

Mother of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer Says Shes Received Death Threats

A day after burying her daughter, the mother of a woman killed during Saturday’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville scoffed at President Donald Trump’s claim that violence on “both sides” led to her daughter’s death.

Susan Bro said Thursday that any fights between marching racists and counter-protesters were “irrelevant” because her daughter, Heather Heyer, was simply peacefully protesting when she was brutally mowed down.

"Whether there was violence on both sides or not is irrelevant," Bro told MSNBC's Katy Tur. "The guy mowed my daughter down and, sorry, that’s not excusable."

Heyer was killed Saturday when a man police have said is 20-year-old James Alex Fields, Jr. drove his car into a crowd of protesters following a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was 32.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mother-charlottesville-victim-heather-heyer-says-she-s-received-death-n793691
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Mother of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer Says Shes Received Death Threats (Original Post) spanone Aug 2017 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Aug 2017 #1
DEAR GODDESS!!! WTF is going on in this wountry!!!! Catmusicfan Aug 2017 #2
A good look into their hate and fascism. 58Sunliner Aug 2017 #3

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58Sunliner

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3. A good look into their hate and fascism.
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 09:03 AM
Aug 2017

One of theirs killed her daughter, who they then defamed and marginalized, and when the mother simply states the simple truth they feel the need to kill her too. Anyone who challenges them is seen as a traitor to their cause and that gives them the permission to kill, in their sick society. They feel that by virtue of their beliefs they have the right to kill women who aren't a useful tool of this psychosis. Their misogyny runs as deep as their racism.
This woman is an inspiration to me. Be strong. I hope they are stupid enough to put it in writing that can traced back to them.

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