Suspect in Charlottesville Attack Had Displayed Troubling Behavior

[laserhaas]

Source: New York Times

The carnage — the chaos, the cries and the death of a woman — began to unspool over a few stunning seconds on Saturday: James Alex Fields Jr., the police said, aimed his sleek Dodge Challenger and slammed it into a crowd in Charlottesville, Va.

Although the crash was a grisly coda to a day of clashes between white nationalists and their opponents, family members, acquaintances and internet posts suggested that Mr. Fields had mostly gone unnoticed by the authorities and researchers, even as he trafficked in radical views and unnerving behavior long before the outbreak of violence.

As a young man in Kentucky, he sometimes espoused Nazi ideology at school. A military career ended in less than four months. On Saturday, before the crash that left Heather D. Heyer, 32, dead, and 19 others hurt, he stood in Charlottesville, donned a white shirt and clutched a shield that bore a symbol of the so-called alt-right. He is expected to appear in court on Monday to face an array of charges, including a count of second-degree murder; the federal authorities have opened a civil-rights inquiry.

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“He wasn’t afraid to make you feel unsafe,” said the woman {anonymous}, who was among the students who said Mr. Fields had made them feel unnerved.

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[bora13]

1. Christine

he's the little punk in Christine with the behavior to prove it.

[laserhaas]

2. Pathetic state of affairs

Why can't these extremists take out a bad faith party?

[WinstonSmith4740]

3. Wow. Talk about getting thrown under the bus.

These guys don't hesitate for an instant.

“The driver of the vehicle that hit counter-protesters today was, in no way, a member of Vanguard America,” the group said in a statement on Twitter. “All our members had been safely evacuated by the time of the incident. The shields seen do not denote membership, nor does the white shirt. The shirts were freely handed out to anyone in attendance.”

They don't even support each other.

[laserhaas]

4. You cant preach hate and violence

And then Chickenshit out away of hate and violence

[WinstonSmith4740]

6. Oh, hell no!

All these guys know is seething hatred of all things not like themselves. Once they eliminate everyone except fellow travelers from their circle, they will begin to turn on each other, because no one is ever pure enough. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly the philosophic difference is between any of these groups that they would deny even acknowledging each other.

Yeah, didn't you just love David Duke getting his knickers in a twist over Trump's "condemnation"? He claimed the KKK, Alt right, etc. "abhor violence". It was those damn leftists that caused all the trouble, don't 'cha know!

[herding cats]

5. They don't want to be sued.

It'll be very interesting to see if he how much contact they had with him as the details emerge.

[laserhaas]

10. Yup.

IMO they all should be sued, including Trump, for inciting hate and violence.

[Cicada]

7. Previously diagnosed schizophrenic

The article mentions that diagnosis in his teens.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Fields attacked his wheelchair mother in 2010 & 2011

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Suspect-in-deadly-Virginia-car-ramming-due-in-11816805.php

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The driver charged with killing a woman at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville was previously accused of beating his mother and threatening her with a knife, according to police records released Monday.

Samantha Bloom, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, repeatedly called police about her son, James Alex Fields Jr., in 2010 and 2011, telling officers he was on medication to control his temper, transcripts from 911 calls show.

[laserhaas]

9. WOW...what a receipe for disaster, thus guy is

Fortunate more lives weren't lost!