Posted on 08/14/2017 5:33:33 PM PDT by Mariner
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. A Virginia police chief said Monday that he "absolutely has regrets" about violence that erupted over the weekend when dozens of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members clashed with counterprotesters.
As the world watched pandemonium in Charlottesville unfold live on television Saturday, officers seemed to stand on the sidelines as fists flew, bats swung and objects soared through the air.
"We were hoping for a peaceful demonstration," Chief Al Thomas said at a news conference. "Gradually the crowd size increased along with aggressiveness and hostility of the attendees towards one another."
After police ordered everyone out of a small park where the rally was being held, protesters took to the streets. A man plowed his car into a group of counterprotesters, killing a woman and injuring 19 others.
On Monday, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he directed his administration to conduct an "extensive review" of how police prepare and respond to rallies. The city's former police chief and law enforcement experts were critical of the way police responded, saying the ostensibly hands-off approach seemed to allow the violent fracas to grow.
Thomas said his officers were spread thin and had to make quick adjustments to their strategies when white nationalists began swarming the park and violence erupted.
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The permitted, court-ordered protesters were attacked by BLM and Antifa. And that was OK with the cops until one of the protesters had enough and flipped out.
The USDOJ needs to interview every cop in that dept and every state cop that was assigned there. They most certainly were ordered to be hands-off, IN SPITE of a Federal Judge's order.
Meanwhile, the media won't even name Antifa, and just keeps calling them "counterprotesters."
when dozens of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members clashed with counterprotesters.
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So the paid antifa soldiers and just counterprotesters...
Track their faces, identify them, ...
I saw a live leaks video today where the woman recording said that the cops left once Antifa started marching (shortly before the car incident). She continued recording till the cops came. It must have been 15 minutes. Unacceptable.
https://www.infowars.com/watch-live-alt-right-alt-left-clash-in-charlottesville/
There are four videos in this link,the frist is by millie who tells all she was there.
Some one purposely set this one up to explode this time like McAwful .
McAwful did this because of the upcoming VA Gov race .
White nazis vs Black nazis. Who do ya root for? Why protect either one?
Boy, they really had to phrase that carefully to avoid incriminating their preferred thugs, didn't they??
WHO brought bats and bottles of urine to the fracas?...who?
I am glad you posted this. I saw this earlier in the news.
This article interviews the former Cville Police Chief about how the police handled the protests on Saturday.
Joe Longo was highly respected here, and retired a year or so ago.
It is almost incomprehensible that all of the foot traffic from the counter protesters was allowed in the location where the homicide occurred.
This was really obvious to almost everyone...
For the most part, the cops just stood there off on the sidelines, looking professional.
Looked just like Berkeley, CA. where the cops did nothing.
“Why protect either one? “
Because one of the groups had a permit, and the city was under a Federal Court Order to allow them to demonstrate.
The Judge should hold the police chief and mayor in contempt, jailing them for 90 days.
Then the DOJ needs to consider charges against all city and state officials for denying civil rights under color of law. That would make all of them complicit in the murder of the lefty girl.
I would say culpable.
Charlottesville wanted further justification to remove Confederate Monuments. What better way to produce that than a full blown racial riot? Let two Socialist Hate factions into the same space and watch the fireworks!
This was a planned set up by the politicians.
Permitting the two opposing groups on the streets ate the same time?
What could possibly go wrong?
And we watched the police standing idly by in the midst of the violence.
Another political order to Stand Down?
Need to investigate the politicians and the orders that came down to the P.D.
the line up is:
Soros/McAwful/Mayor Michael Signer/Police Chief/antifa—BLM—victims.
Oh yeah then the unknown guy who pretended to be the 20 year old from Ohio in the look alike car who ran people donw and then was wisked away in a black suburban.
I thought this was a rally to protest the removal of some statues?
And then they didn’t have the rally?
And so people started throwing bags of pee at them?
And that’s OK?
Gosh, it seems like you could just attack anyone because they might say something you don’t like.
White nazis vs Black nazis
Unfreakingbelievable!!
I’m sure Sessions’ investigation will cover this and interview Millie! /s
McCauliffe and mayor Signer should stand trial for the death of the two officers that crashed in the chopper.
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