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Reporter: Police Were Called Off When Violence Started – They Said, "We’re Leaving"
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Aug 13th, 2017

Posted on 08/13/2017 4:16:12 PM PDT by Helicondelta

FOX News reporter Doug McKelway attended the violent protests Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.

McKelway told FOX News viewers the police pulled out of Lee Park after the violence started. The police told him, “We’re leaving. It’s too dangerous.”

Doug McKelway: We are now beginning to hear criticism bubble up on all sides of this event about the initial slow response by the police. When I got out of my car yesterday in Charlottesville about 10:30 in the morning you knew this was a bad scene and bad things were going to be happening because people were congregating at Lee Park and Emancipation Park wearing helmets, body armor, carrying big heavy sticks. Nobody was intent on peace here from either side. People were intent on causing havoc and causing damage. And even as wounded were being brought out of the park police were sitting idly by. I was standing off a cordoned off area where the police had set up as a staging area, the state police, and they said you can come in here this is a safe area. But when the tear gas started to fly, thrown by protesters, the police themselves began to evacuate then. I asked the guy who was in charge, “Where you going?” He said, “We’re leaving. It’s too dangerous.” They had a chance to nip this thing in the bud and they chose not to.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifa; bloggers; charlottesville; cowards; cvapolice; cvapolicestanddown; cvariots; donutwatch; leo; police; riots; trump; violence; virginia
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To: Bodleian_Girl

This wasn’t staged. A bunch of idiots representing two opposing views decided to tear each other up.


121 posted on 08/13/2017 6:51:37 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Helicondelta

Haven’t read through all the posts but this has happened at many, many cities to the point it’s more of a pattern it’s anti”we the people” and war!


122 posted on 08/13/2017 6:51:40 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: Helicondelta; Travis McGee; LS; The Toll

This is exactly — EXACTLY — what happened in Nazi Germany. Police stopped enforcing the law as regards protections against disfavored classes of people.

We are no longer approaching a Nazi America.

We are in it.


123 posted on 08/13/2017 6:53:20 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: cornfedcowboy

State Department assets with ties to the CIA just happened to be there filming.

http://archive.is/w0TO8


124 posted on 08/13/2017 7:01:48 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: DoodleDawg

I’ve yet to see much evidence that the ‘far right’ crowd was anything off the sort. Surely there’s video of lots of Nazi and KKK flags everywhere, yet where is it?

This is a setup. All done so the media can say ‘violent right wing terrorists’ that are ‘Trump’s base’, to reinforce that the GOP and Trump are racists because they’re probably seeing cracks in the black vote for DNC.

This was a recipe, pick a famous Confederate monument to take down, get all the pieces in place and have the cops leave.


125 posted on 08/13/2017 7:02:47 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

State Department assets with ties to the CIA just happened to be there filming.

http://archive.is/w0TO8


126 posted on 08/13/2017 7:04:11 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Pelham

Yes-Charlottsville gonna be a broke-az town


127 posted on 08/13/2017 7:06:19 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: fuzzylogic
You mean like the organizer of Unite the Right being a proud member of the KKK?
128 posted on 08/13/2017 7:07:18 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Molon Labbie

Yep. The mayor of Charlottesville owns this.


129 posted on 08/13/2017 7:11:53 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: TigersEye

So that smears the intent of the entire crowd? Of course many will care that the left wants to take down this statue, it doesn’t make them all racists. Even a KKK leader can align with average people on something specific.

So you think the average Joe that was there to protest was a ‘far right wing terrorist’? There’s nothing that details the makeup of the crowd, just narrative. Where’s the DNC leaders denouncing BLM and antifa? Media is silent. This was all well manipulated for media narrative.


130 posted on 08/13/2017 7:17:27 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: IrishBrigade

LOL. Frigging IPad.


131 posted on 08/13/2017 7:18:23 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I’ll wait for facts. I’ve seen video clearly showing antifa smashing his tail light before the acceleration. So yeah, deliberate...but maybe in fear for their life too.


132 posted on 08/13/2017 7:19:43 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Helicondelta

Anyone, left or right, who suffered so much as a hangnail as a result of Saturday’s riot should sue the city of Charlottesville, the mayor, the city and state police, and the governor for everything they’ve got. What wasn’t dereliction of duty looks like collusion with the Antifa/BLM storm troopers


133 posted on 08/13/2017 7:20:06 PM PDT by VietVet
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To: Pelham

And yet it was in reverse he killed the girl on his trunk...


134 posted on 08/13/2017 7:20:41 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Whatever happened to “I disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death to protect your right to say it.”?


135 posted on 08/13/2017 7:26:20 PM PDT by VietVet
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To: AppyPappy

“...30% of the Alt-Right people were openly armed with guns...”

What is your source for that assertion? I saw no guns in any of the photos which have been posted. I suspect if that were true, there would have been a lot of Antifa/BLM thugs shot, for example, flamethrower guy.


136 posted on 08/13/2017 7:31:21 PM PDT by VietVet
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To: AppyPappy; Altura Ct.
An estimated 30% of the Alt-Right people were openly armed with guns.

Awesome! AppyPappy has a great fact!!!

Hey, Altura CT. You were there; you wrote a vanity about your observations. I'm sure you will happily corroborate Appy Pappy's assertion! Where there openly-displayed arms at the demonstration?

137 posted on 08/13/2017 7:41:01 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Pelham

That’s not what the video shows. It shows him accelerating with a fairly open road in front of him. It’s entirely possible that he’d already been attacked or threatened, and was accelerating away from the threat.

If he was looking at the rear view mirror or behind him and didn’t see the stopped vehicle in front of him he might be reckless but it’s not proof of intent to ram people.

If he stays after the incident he’s dead, so he gets out fast.

I don’t think any video I’ve seen so far completely clears or condemns the driver. The media has gotten the initial facts and circumstances of several major incidents entirely wrong before, as in the Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown shootings.

I’m willing to wait before I brand him a jihadi or an innocent victim. My gut guess is that was scared, maybe even unreasonably so, and hit the gas to get out of trouble, hit the stopped car and vamoosed.

Had the stopped vehicles not been there, he might have mowed down a bunch of people illegally in the street, but he never got the chance. If he was aiming to kill as many as possible, there were lots of targets on the sidewalks while he was accelerating.

Too many questions and variables to call this one, IMHO.


138 posted on 08/13/2017 8:13:57 PM PDT by M1911A1 (President Trump. Ahhhhhhhh.....)
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To: All

Visit this thread for some interesting new info:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3576909/posts

The man who did the video of the attack is a former State Department employee involved now with a Soros-funded politician.


139 posted on 08/13/2017 8:29:32 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: lightman
Terry McAuliffe.
Oh, you mean the same bastard scumbag Terry McAuliffe who was deeply involved in bill and hillary clinton's chinagate treason!
140 posted on 08/13/2017 8:43:57 PM PDT by Mr Apple (Bill Clinton and Bernard Schwartz: Missile launches in N Korea....with loral guidance at the ready)
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