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Who was responsible for the violence in Charlottesville? Here's what witnesses say (both sides)
LA Times ^

Posted on 08/16/2017 11:45:10 AM PDT by Cubs Fan

Lots of accounts from left right and all in between. Show the violence was, just as trump says, on both sides.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifa; charlottesville; neonazis; virginia
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Aside from this random act of journalism--the media has gone way beyond bias now. They know that Antifa, Black Lives Matter and other left wing extremist groups with a long history of violence, were just as responsible for the violence at Charlottesville, if not more. And they are deliberately lying to give cover for their violent leftist fellow travelers in antifa, BLM etc.
1 posted on 08/16/2017 11:45:10 AM PDT by Cubs Fan
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To: Cubs Fan

One simple questions to sort this out:

Who had a permit to hold a rally, and who did not?


2 posted on 08/16/2017 11:47:28 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: Cubs Fan

3 posted on 08/16/2017 11:50:07 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: taxcontrol

Exactly.

Heather Heyer’s death was proximately caused by the conditions and situation which antifa created when they came - uninvited and without a permit - and initiated violence. Without antifa violence, there would have been no circumstances creating James Fields’ state of mind such as to lead him to want to drive a car into people hitting his car with baseball bats and bricks.


4 posted on 08/16/2017 11:50:09 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Bring back lords and kings)
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This was a disaster waiting for a victim since the first BLM protests. Nobody stopped them from having their protest-riots block streets. Lots of thinking people talked about what they would do if surrounded by an out-of-control mob hell bent on destruction.

The message should've been "keep your demonstrations out of the streets or get arrested for obstructing traffic". Never happened.

5 posted on 08/16/2017 11:53:09 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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Witness #1: "I was in the front of the rally and I saw the guys in the white hats starting to hit people."
Witness #2: "I was in the back of the rally and I saw the guys in the black hats starting to hit people."

Media: "So you both agree that Trump started it?"

Witness #1 and #2: "What? No. That's not what we're saying at all."

Media: "Okay. It's settled. Trump started this."

6 posted on 08/16/2017 11:53:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: taxcontrol

Another simple question — Who struck the first blows?


7 posted on 08/16/2017 11:54:19 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Cubs Fan

Absolutely

Just look at the stupid racist genocidal crap we see posted here from college “professors”

Who still have their jobs

Then there were the Antifa assaults

And blm encouragement and cheering of cops being shot

Pigs in a blanket
Fry em like bacon

Remember that? Now ask, who were the “haters” here and what did Obama & Holder/Lynch have to say about that? How hysteria did the enemedia get over that? How many cops were assaulted and killed? How many plots were busted?

Remember when they made excuses for the King Rodney rioters?

FIGHT BACK against these bastards . . . go on OFFENSE


8 posted on 08/16/2017 11:56:29 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
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The answer was simple: one side was chanting "Blood and Soil!", the translation of a infamous Nazi slogan Blut und Boden. The other side was also itching for a fight. Since the Virginia state police didn't keep them far apart, it was a political powder keg waiting to go off--and go off it did.
9 posted on 08/16/2017 11:57:19 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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Who’s instigating taking these statues down in the first place?


10 posted on 08/16/2017 11:57:36 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: taxcontrol

Both had permits

http://www.nbc29.com/story/36115819/judge-grants-injunction-jason-kessler-can-have-unite-the-right-rally-at-emancipation-park


11 posted on 08/16/2017 11:57:39 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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And that’s ASSUMING that was his intent, and not his panic to get away from mob assault


12 posted on 08/16/2017 11:57:39 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I believe you’ve identified the biggest a-holes of all here.
The #Corporate-FakeNews.


13 posted on 08/16/2017 11:58:45 AM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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Simple: George Soros, Barack 0bama, Terry McAuliffe, Michael Signer and Wes Bellamy.


14 posted on 08/16/2017 12:00:50 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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The MSM knows that the groups in question (Antifa, BLM, etc) are all funded by Open Society (ie George Soros and their ilk) which wants one worldwide government without borders. The members of these groups are just pawns in a much larger game of chess that the globalists are frantically putting into place before the masses can figure out their plan. They know that there is a short window with which to implement their vision and they will use all the resources at their disposal to make it happen. This is a battle of principalities...pray, pray, pray.


15 posted on 08/16/2017 12:02:12 PM PDT by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: Yashcheritsiy
James Fields’ state of mind

No human knows that except James Fields ...

16 posted on 08/16/2017 12:02:19 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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People are worried about all the negative propaganda the left is generating with their false Charlottesvile narrative,

But the Trump and the truth will win out in the long run,
simply because the violent Antifa/BLM can not help themselves.

As time goes by and more and more episodes of leftist Mob violence occur, public opinion will turn in our favor.

As the public becomes totally fed up with this mob violence, they will recall how Trump spoke out about left wing violence.

He will once again be seen as prophetic and his opponents will be see as the liars they are.


17 posted on 08/16/2017 12:02:35 PM PDT by Jonah Johansen ("Coming soon to a neighborhood near you")
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To: tophat9000

the thing is this first the right had a permit... then the left want to counter protest and so then also got a permit to counter-protest...

then the city pulled the original rights permit saying they might have too many people in the park and it would cause problems with the counter-protesters...

so then the right went to the ACLU and another civil liberties group and went before court and got a court order reinstating their permit


18 posted on 08/16/2017 12:03:40 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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19 posted on 08/16/2017 12:03:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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The LA Slimes posted this?? Im shocked..here let me see if there are any flying pigs outside! Well DUH of course BOTH SIDES are to blame..Neo Nazi wannabes and Antifa are both one in the same..both anti American, Jew Hating freakazoids


20 posted on 08/16/2017 12:04:11 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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