The mayor and the governor wanted something to blame on Trump and light up the media.
It certainly appears that there was a well planned and coordinated effort by the authorities, with help from outside agencies as well, to insure that there would be violence in Charlottesville that day.
Yes the mayor and the governor wanted to take advantage of the problem with Saul Alinsky’s “Never let a crisis go to waste” and it would be something to blame on Trump and they knew the media would play along.
But as to James Field’s “strange reverse car terrorist attack” where someone first gave his car a whack when he was driving slow, then there’s a short video where Field’s hits his brakes as he comes up to a large group of people. After that something must have spooked him as he then hit the gas. Then later if he hadn’t hit reverse in 5 more seconds would have been too late for him.