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Victim in Virginia melee wept for social justice, her boss says
Reuters ^ | 08/13/17 | Bernie Woodall

Posted on 08/13/2017 5:48:05 PM PDT by Robwin

Heather Heyer came to downtown Charlottesville with her friends to make a stand against white nationalists who converged on the Virginia college town to demand the city keep a statue honoring a Confederate war hero, her boss said on Sunday.

The 32-year-old paralegal wanted to send a clear message to the neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan sympathizers who planned to stage one of the largest far-right rallies in recent U.S. history that people abhor their views in the city where she was born, he said.

But her decision to join counter-protesters on Saturday resulted in tragedy when a 20-year-old Ohio man drove his car at high speed into a line of marchers, killing Heyer and injuring at least 19 others.

A strong sense of social justice was a constant theme in Heyer's personal and working life, said Alfred Wilson, bankruptcy division manager at the Miller Law Group.

"There have been times that I've walked back to her office and she had tears in her eyes" for various injustices she saw in the world, said Wilson, such as the time she was weeping after reading anti-Muslim comments online, Wilson said.

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Heyer was a supporter of Bernie Sanders, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination won by Hillary Clinton, Wilson said.

As a white woman, she thought it unfair that she enjoyed liberties that Wilson, as a black man, did not, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; heatherheyer; sjw
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To: sport

Yea really, he was a district manager and she was a paralegal, but she felt sorry for him? She should have just become the janitor, maybe that would make her feel better. Well, I guess I shouldn’t make fun of the dead. I’m sure everyone is judged equally in the next life, based on their deeds.


101 posted on 08/13/2017 7:49:00 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Robwin

John Donne said every man’s death diminished him. I don’t agree. The loss of a SJW is a win for everyone. They can’t be reasoned with and they can’t be bargained with. They never quit trying to force everyone into their Marxist mold. To hell with her and her ilk.


102 posted on 08/13/2017 8:00:02 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

A lot of people hate juice. I don’t get it.


103 posted on 08/13/2017 8:05:32 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: exDemMom

And the black man was a district manager and she was just a paralegal.


104 posted on 08/13/2017 8:13:16 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

And if she had not attacked the back of that auto she would still be alive. Oh, the irony. She didn’t read the hood ornament. “Dodge”.


105 posted on 08/13/2017 8:19:37 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Robwin

She was so fat she used Google Earth to take selfies.


106 posted on 08/13/2017 8:21:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Years ago when I became interested in collecting precious metals among other things, I got on some related forums. I was surprised at how many Jew haters there were, blaming them for all society’s financial ills.


107 posted on 08/13/2017 8:31:34 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Really.


108 posted on 08/13/2017 8:37:22 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: combat_boots

Ahh, Glenn Beck.


109 posted on 08/13/2017 8:38:54 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

LOL


110 posted on 08/13/2017 8:41:34 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: lightman

...strong sense of social justice....

That and her magic Shield forged with Virtue were not enough to protect her.

Ya think they could read history.
Rachel Corrie thought she could stop a bulldozer and not get hurt


111 posted on 08/13/2017 8:41:45 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Robwin

I thought Heyer was an innocent citizen just crossing the street when the 20 year old drove over her.. That is what the Police chief said. Course now we learn the the police were afraid to go in to stop the fighting and restore peace..


112 posted on 08/13/2017 9:01:05 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: foundedonpurpose

She was chasing the dodge right before it backed up. She had a baton of some kind in her hand. You might say she was armed. She got right up to the back of the dodge to take a few wacks at it I guess, then the guy floors it in reverse, and she gets pinned between the dodge and the side black truck as it was side swiped. I think that’s when she got killed. If you don’t want to get killed, then don’t attend riots. Wept for social justice my eye. I think I’ll save my sympathy for now. Jackasses.


113 posted on 08/13/2017 9:01:10 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: virgil

This Rooters article is supposed to be a tear-joker, but it comes across as maudlin, even mawkish.
These people are so transparent.


114 posted on 08/13/2017 9:04:34 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Robwin

Does she have a husband or wife? Or children?

She was a Bernie supporter.


115 posted on 08/13/2017 9:12:30 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: from occupied ga

Snap judgments easily come unfastened.

I doubt she was an original. She probably was following around with a crowd, as I suspect you are, only with a different crowd.

I fear to stick my finger in God’s eye like you do.


116 posted on 08/13/2017 9:14:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Robwin

A line of marchers? Or a mob of violent communists wielding weapons and attacking the cars on the road? Were the roads blocked off for the peaceful weapon wielding line of marchers?

Why was the driver on that one way street? Had he been parked there? Did his GPS send him down the road?


117 posted on 08/13/2017 9:15:40 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: virgil

And yet... If she whacked a car that was less bad than whacking its driver. However it looks like her passion did in her reason.


118 posted on 08/13/2017 9:18:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

First Trump, now this—young white people, fine southern patriots standing up to Antifa anarchists and BLM communists!

But the best is yet to come: in about a week we white people plan to actually blot out the sun during the middle of the day for about an hour—just to show we can.


119 posted on 08/13/2017 9:22:35 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: petitfour

For what it’s worth, I’ve seen bizarre behavior from GPS based driver guides. In Kansas City, Google Maps sent me more than once on an unasked for visit to a side neighborhood. A careless finger dab on a screen can change a route to a side track and still the destination seems the same.


120 posted on 08/13/2017 9:27:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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