Posted on 08/18/2017 3:36:16 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Virginia Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran told Richmond talk radio host Jeff Katz on Monday that Governor Terry McAuliffe “made the decision . . . to shut things down” at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville...August 12.
Appearing on Katz’s 1140 AM WRVA radio program, Moran explained the rapidly moving sequence of events that began at 11:22 a.m. when he phoned Governor McAuliffe from the City of Charlottesville Command Center located on the sixth floor of the Wells Fargo building in downtown Charlottesville, just a few blocks from Emancipation Park.
“In light of the escalating violence we had to shut things down,” Moran told Katz (beginning at the 4:15 mark in the audio recording of the interview).
“At about 11:22 I called the governor and he immediately made the decision yes, go ahead, and of course, in consultation with the Virginia State Police, Colonel Flaherty, we put in the appropriate place to clear the park and clear the streets,” Moran said.
Katz was able to confirm Moran’s statement the following day, Tuesday, when he interviewed Virginia State Police Superintendent Stephen Flaherty, who said that both he and Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones were with Secretary Moran at the Wells Fargo building command center that morning.
“The [Charlottesville] City Manager was in the command post with us [on the 6th Floor of the Wells Fargo building downtown Charlottesville],” Flaherty told Katz. But seconds later in that interview, Flaherty let slip what critics of the police response to the Emancipation Park rally and related brawls between two opposing groups have been saying since the event occured.
“We felt early on we would probably have to declare an unlawful assembly,” Flaherty said.
An eyewitness account described the events that morning that Secretary Moran told Katz comprised “the escalating violence.”
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Because Sessions is too busy blaming the right to stop, pull his head out of his a$$ and realize that this was all setup by the Clinton and Soros machine and carried out by their bag man.
We are in dire need of an AG that can think on his feet when approached with more than a first grade subject.
Who knows? Maybe the powers that be, are a bunch of gutless, spineless wimps, or maybe they are on the other side.
Where are the videos?
They blew up in the center fuel tank?
[But check out this 2015 article of his that I dug up yesterday on the internet archive site, WayBackMachine...]
Wow - is he Charles Manson’s son?
I have read both that the counterprotesters had and did not have a permit.
If they had one (or two) let's see them. To whom were they granted? By whom were they granted? When were they granted?
Where was the permit granted for? What activities were permitted in the grant? Speeches? A march? A parade?
What Law Enforcement Agency had the responsibility for security and order at the permitted counterprotests? Who was in charge? From whom did they take their orders?
These things should be verifiable facts. If there were a permit, a copy exists. Someone signed it. Orders and assignments were issued to the police departments and Sheriff's Office, as they are every day. Somewhere records exist of those orders and assignments. So let's see them.
WHY isn’t a Special Council appointed to look into how the local and state authorities handled crowd control and public safety during this event? On whether they followed their own protocols and established procedures during this protest? On whether authorities gave police orders to “stand down” and if so, why did they do that? On whether the white supremacist organizer, was really a white supremacist or was he a political operative to purposely agitating groups at the event? And if he is the later, who was he affiliated with and who funded him?
Hmmmm. . . . Might he be thinking about running for Prez in 2020? I think so, Clinton bud that he is.
Good. Looking forward to the article detailing McOffal’s role in cooking things up.
pic 1 thru 4 go nowhere now.
In Crown Heights ‘91, they didn’t let a mere murder stop the party. They waited three days after Rosenbaum’s murder, until someone threw a bottle at Dinkins and shouted “the mayor is not safe!” The next day, the police suddenly found themselves capable of action.
The mayor thinks he’s God. Disgusting.
I meant the governor. Dirt bag.
What imbecile issued a permit for a counter protest the SAME DAY?
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
.... for some reason, this does not surprise me.....
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