Leaked Chats Show White Nationalists Planned Use Of Brutal Force In C'Ville

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published AUGUST 28, 2017 2:29 PM

A steady stream of leaked screenshots from the now-defunct chat server used to organize attendees at this month’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally shows that the white nationalists who descended on Charlottesville, Virginia were well-organized and came with the intention of committing brutal violence.

Unicorn Riot, a volunteer nonprofit media outlet, received hundreds of chat transcripts from the app Discord through an anonymous source, and has been publishing them in edited batches since the Aug. 12 rally. Eli Mosley, one of the organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally, told Wired that the screenshots of the chats appeared to be legitimate.

In some of the chats, posters shared photographs of themselves mugging with semi-automatic weapons or homemade shields. In others, they discussed the ideal thickness of PVC pipes that could be used for “thumping” counter-protesters and shared GoFundMe links urging like-minded people to fund their road trips to Charlottesville.

Most strikingly, a number of posts joked about plowing cars into crowds of peaceful protesters. James Alex Fields, Jr. allegedly killed one such counter-protester, Virginia native Heather Heyer, and injured at least 19 others when he rammed his Dodge Charger down a crowded street at the height of the rally.

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[underpants]

1. But but it was the cops fault

[Nitram]

19. Yes, it was. The cops sealed off the north entrance to the park that they told the

nazis to use, so they had to walk through protestors to get inside. Then the cops pushed the nazis out of the park right into the protestors instead of keeping them separated. The cops bear a lot for responsibility for what happened.

[JonLP24]

23. Cops claimed they disregarded their pre-protest plan and went the wrong direction

What I heard from them anyways. Don't know if it is true but the nazis seemed to be looking for a fight regardless.

[LanternWaste]

20. Fault by one does not necessarily deny fault by another.

Fault may often be shared. Fault by one does not necessarily deny fault by another. The False Dilemma is a logical fallacy.

[Nitram]

24. I'm starting with the assumption that it was the cop's job was to

keep the two groups from interacting. That's standard crowd control in a situation like this. They utterly failed to take the minimum steps to achieve that goal. They knew in advance that both groups had a potential for violence.

[ck4829]

2. Hmm. Pretty sure that wasn't included in that permit they said they had

[Control-Z]

3. Does that not make Heather Heyer's murder

possibly premeditated?

[ck4829]

5. I would say not just premeditated but a conspiracy

Especially if Fields was part of this discussion.

[Control-Z]

6. Yes, that's what I'm thinking.

I hope they have those conversations - with Fields. He will not be the only one tried for murder if the circumstances prove conspiracy, correct?

[ck4829]

10. I would think so

[pecosbob]

4. In a land where 'grand jury's will indict a ham sandwich'

this sounds like prima facie evidence of a conspiracy. I await the impending indictments.

[Achilleaze]

7. Traitorous republican thug squads against America

deporable

[DK504]

8. And now Sessions has reinstated a new slew of shipments

of military equipment to cities that are already armies.

[L. Coyote]

9. No surprise. We see this online all the time now.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. "many sides...many sides"

"There were great people there, protesting the removal of that beautiful statue"

"many sides ..... many sides"

[world wide wally]

12. Very fine people

[Honeycombe8]

13. LOL. I read your title & thought it said "Snow White Nationalists." :) nt

[They_Live]

17. Me too!

Like they would all have dwarf nicknames.

[Honeycombe8]

18. :) nt

[crazycatlady]

21. Only Grumpy and Dopey suit them

[FSogol]

22. Dopey, Lazy, Angry, Weepy, Cowardly, Whiney, Unseemly...

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[Martin Eden]

14. It was all just the internet equivalent of "locker room talk"

After all, none of them ACTUALLY drove a car into a crowd of counter protesters.

[Ligyron]

15. Right?

I mean, it wasn't like one of them actually did it... oh, wait...

[The Wizard]

16. Fine people

if you're a violence prone Nazi Trump sympathizer.

[riversedge]

25. Not good.