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
This is true, however, Trump supporters also want to preserve history as it stands. Regardless of good or bad. How would some feel if MLK statues and monuments and road signs were taken down. What about MLK neighborhoods. Equality for all, right?
Exactly. That is what started all this and Obama is blamed more than anyone for the race wars in our country. Leave the monuments alone. They hurt no one.
What is BLM but a hate group. Blacks are racists also. Time to admit that fact.
Debra Floyd that’s what I said
Who started the violence? That is the question, the judge gave them permission to march. Did the opposition have permission to disrupt them?
C.j. Anderson Good point.
They are there as a reminder to either learn or learn not to make the same mistakes and the only reason they want to take them down is they can revise history
Leave history alone stupidity disgraceful disrespectful disgusting UN_AMERICAN
I agree with you the American People need to be for America and not some stupid group!
These people are sorry excuses for right-wingers. I thought we were better than this, telling leftists that violence doesn’t solve problems but we go out and do the same thing. Makes our entire party look stupid, foolish, and completely hypocritical.