Your facts are incorrect.
Charlottesville did not try to stop the rally. They wanted to relocate it away from the park downtown to another location.
ACLU and a local conservative group both went to federal court to oppose the relocation.
The bigger question should be who let all the counter protesters so close to the location of the rally. I am not sure if that responsibility lies with the City or the VSP (read McAuliffe).
Some of those protestors were clearly locals, but I doubt the BLM protesters were. And I also don’t think they had a permit.
MSNBCNN is slipping up; despite obvious efforts to frame the story, they let a few hammer & sickle flags show in their footage. The hoopla about the “torchlight parade” doesn’t explain why these evil white people caused no violence last night; the Reds that showed up today wanted to fight, and they got one.
One witch on MSNBCNN (I honestly don’t differentiate between them) couldn’t understand why the original demonstrators (opposed to the removal of the statues) were even allowed to gather. Of course she never mentioned why they were there, just called them “white supremacists” of something along those lines.
This is still mild in comparison to what BLM and the anarchists do (without consequences).
They wanted the commies to attack the protesters as usual but this time the protesters were ready for them.