"The city of Charlottesville and City Manager Maurice Jones are now facing a federal civil rights lawsuit that includes an allegation that “political pressure” led city officials earlier this week to waffle on whether they would provide security at a controversial rally in Emancipation Park on Saturday.According to the lawsuit filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and The Rutherford Institute, Police Chief Al Thomas told Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler on Monday that police would provide protection at the rally.
But at a private meeting Tuesday, after the city held a news conference Monday announcing that it would provide Kessler a permit only if he moved the event about a mile away to McIntire Park, city officials told him that Thomas had “changed his mind,” the lawsuit claims.
At the Tuesday meeting, according to the lawsuit, Kessler asked why changes had been made to security … “and if this was due to political pressure. Capt. [Wendy] Lewis indicated affirmatively with her facial expression and body language.”
The city has cited concerns about security and safety as its reasons for asking the event to be relocated. At a news conference Thursday, Thomas said everyone would be protected whether they are gathered at Emancipation Park or McIntire Park.
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YouTube: Organizer Of Charlottesville Rally Jason Kessler explains permit, PD, Mayor Signer..
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NYDailyNews: Charlottesville suspect held hate group shield before attack
James Alex Fields Jr.(c.) brandished a shield from the Vanguard America group before the Charlottesville attack. (Go Nakamura/New York Daily News)"...Fields’ Facebook page was peppered with similar alt-right and Nazi imagery — such as Hitler’s baby photo; a tourist shot of the Reichstag in Berlin; and a cartoon of Pepe the Frog, the anthropomorphic frog hijacked by right-wing groups — before it was deactivated around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.