A state of emergency was declared this morning by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe after violent protests broke out this morning at a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.
Governor McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency to aid state response to violence at Alt-Right rally in Charlottesville
— Terry McAuliffe (@GovernorVA) August 12, 2017
Protesters were fighting the erasing of history. Government and city officials had moved to remove a statue of Confederate (and Union!) general Robert E. Lee from a city park. The protest quickly gathered the attention of far-left protest groups such as Antifa hoping to cause a ruckus. Group of liberal protesters gathered to drown out the “Unite the Right” chants of “white lives matters” with “black lives matters”.
Things took a deadly turn when Gov. McAuliffe ordered the National Guard be deployed to end the rally and the police to use force against the folks protesting the erasing of history. Continue to the next page to see videos from the protest, the how far the national guard went to push back the militia groups showing up to protect the protesters
It’s sad to see stuff like this happen. It’s not like this country isnt divided enough… both sides showed up for the sole purpose of starting$#%&!@*with each other. Show up with homemade armor and shields carrying bats and sticks to anything would be your first clue.. I bet you 3/4 of either group came from another town or even state to be apart to create bigger problems than what’s really happening.
Folks paid to start$#%&!@*by rich people. No better than a gang of soccer hooligans beating up the other teams fans.. if a statue of a man dead and gone offends a community it should be up to the community to decide on its fate instead of outsiders paid to protest.
‘ Since it is our countries history one way or the other it belongs in a museum for people to see and learn from. There is no balance in good or bad if you take one away from the other. People should learn from the past so it doesn’t happen again.
Same thing will probably happen in Lexington we have no law enforcement since gray took office
You people were not alive then,it is History,moron