Brian Moran, Virginia’s secretary of public safety
This douche sack is more than willing to let people die if he thinks it advances his political agenda. Effing Clinton clone.
“allow such highly charged groups to meet?”
I have heard, unconfirmed, that the police led the Unify Right or whatever people into the area where BLM and ANTIFA were waiting, then withdrew. There are some longish youtube speeches alleging this.
I wonder if the Sessions DOJ investigation is going to do anything other than ratify the popular narrative that it was all the fault of the racist white Trump supporters? Sessions has a chance here to dig in and report the actions of the Major, the Governor and the political orders to the police that lead to the worst confrontations. But will he?
The anti-first amendment fascists and anti-white bigots had no official permission to stage a counter-demonstration. They were there illegally and came prepared for a fight.
It is clear who SHOULD have been the protected group. It is equally clear from witnesses which group started the trouble.
If this is McAuliffe's definition of a successful police action, I'd hate to be anywhere in his state when the police fail.
Why weren’t the police protecting the alt.left fascists?
Expecting driver of charger to claim self-defense.
Terry thought it was quite wonderful that there was no damage to property. egads man a woman is dead because no one separated the sides. the religious leaders that were there also registered strong complaints to the inaction of police - called it an “embarrassment.”
McAuliffe is a POS. He never condemned the BLM or Antifa thugs.
The police performed admirably. He said so. They pushed those evil White Nazis into the waiting arms of the Antifa thugs so they could get what they deserved.
Five minutes after folks are run over, cops showed up. I didn’t keep watching the video to see when medical transport arrived. My son was hit by a car, and an ambulance was there within five to seven minutes. The ambulance had to come from a fire house a mile and a half away. Maybe two miles. Were there no ambulances on site? Where were the police?
This is the Paul Wellstone funeral Part II.
The evil degenerate baby killer communists are attempting to equate resistance to Marxism with White Supremacy and Neo-Nazism.
Every American communist from Warren Wilhelm to Elizabeth Warren are busy getting out in front of cameras and CALLING ALL TRUMP SUPPORTERS NAZIS!!!!
Like the head of the motorcycle gang said in Dawn of the Dead, “They just effed up real bad”
You ask a rhetorical question; McAuliffe is in the last six months of his term—and can’t run again. His sights are set on the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. By the time he runs again, this weekend’s debacle will be long-forgotten.
McAuliffe, Moran, and other state leaders had months to prepare for this protest, and their “plan” was pathetic. Security was left largely to a small and professional (but over-matched Charlottesville police department, with limited back-up from the local sheriff’s department and the Virginia State Police.
From the start, it was clear that law enforcement wouldn’t have the resources or personnel to deal with anything other than a minor protest and there were clear indicators the event would be anything but minor. Large blocks of hotel rooms were reserved well in advance; there were reports of a fleet of buses used by Soros organizations to transport the Antifa crowd into Charlottesville on Friday, and the Ku Kluxers were running their own shuttle service to move their agitators around.
But McAuliffe and his minions weren’t worried about events spinning out of control. They knew their friends in the MSM would focus on Trump and the Republicans—and they have followed the desired template. The real surprise is a reporter from the NYT reporting the truth (for a change) and noting the Antifa protesters were just as violent as the white supremacists—and the failure of the police response.
One thing is sure: there will be a full-court press to get the NYT reporter—and their coverage—back on the reservation. Watch them walk back the “failed police response” meme in record time.
God forbid they would train police to respond to crowd violence. ANTIFA tells them they will be violent t and they let them demonstrate. This is either a conspiracy or uneasy or both.