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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:12 PM Aug 2017

Report: DHS Warned Of Violent Clashes At Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published AUGUST 30, 2017 11:28 AM

The Department of Homeland Security warned state and local law enforcement ahead of the Aug. 12 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that it was likely to be one of the most violent clashes to date between white supremacists and anti-fascist and anarchist groups, Politico reported Tuesday.

The rally, ostensibly to protest the removal of a Confederate monument from a park, was extremely violent: A counter-protester was killed when a man who had earlier been photographed with white nationalists allegedly rammed his car into a crowd.

Three additional arrests were made in recent days: Two Unite The Right attendees were arrested and charged with malicious wounding in connection with the brutal beating of Deandre Harris, 20, in a parking garage. And Richard Preston, an imperial wizard of the Confederate Knights, a KKK affiliate, was arrested for firing his weapon nearby a school during the rally. Video from the ACLU of Virginia showed Preston firing his gun at a crowd of protesters.

That video also showed Virginia State Police, feet away from Preston when he fired the shot, not responding at all to the incident. The city and law enforcement have come under criticism for not more actively intervening to keep the peace.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-dhs-warned-violent-clashes-charlottesville

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Report: DHS Warned Of Violent Clashes At Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2017 OP
LEO's were very plainly supporting the Nazis and letting them rampage with impunity. lark Aug 2017 #1
From a first hand account posted here the police did not help AFTER the car hit csziggy Aug 2017 #4
It still didn't make people be Nazis underpants Aug 2017 #2
Birds of a feather? procon Aug 2017 #3

lark

(23,003 posts)
1. LEO's were very plainly supporting the Nazis and letting them rampage with impunity.
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:16 PM
Aug 2017

Nothing at all was done to stop the carnage from the asshole rw'ers until the car incident. Then they finally decided to do something and get off their asses. They were complicit and if I were Heather's mom, I would probably be consulting a lawyer about now.

Edited to fix typo

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
4. From a first hand account posted here the police did not help AFTER the car hit
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 01:36 PM
Aug 2017
The march that was attacked with a car by James Fields was that afternoon. What street fighting had happened was long-since over by then. It was a happy march, it was not fighting anyone. The car attack came out of nowhere and the aftermath looked like a war zone. It hit the front of the march as the march was going around a corner, and many people weren't sure what had happened at first, people were screaming about a bomb. In addition to the woman who died, many people had serious injuries. A medic who was hit had to have emergency surgery to not lose her leg. A 13 year-old girl and her mom were among the injured. The street was covered in blood. The firefighters and paramedics were great. The police, on the other hand, rolled in an armored vehicle and threatened the crowd of survivors with a tear gas launcher. Police officers ordered the medics who were performing CPR on the woman who died to leave her and clear the area. They refused, and bystanders negotiated with the police to leave them alone.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029491135

Emphasis added by me.

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. Birds of a feather?
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 12:39 PM
Aug 2017

DOJ (I know, really?) should investigate, but they likely will not because racists live their now and there is no redress.

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