Charlottesville:...McAuliffe says police failure to control protest due to militia's 'better equipme

[babylonsister]

Charlottesville: Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe says police failure to control protest due to militia's 'better equipment'

The violence at the weekend white supremacist rally resulted in one death and multiple injuries

Mythili Sampathkumar New York


Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has said one of the reasons the police failed to control the violence during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville was because militia members at the rally were armed with "better equipment" than the state police themselves.

“It’s easy to criticise, but I can tell you this, 80 per cent of the people here had semiautomatic weapons," Mr McAuliffe said.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/virginia-governor-terry-mcauliffe-charlottesville-white-supremacist-group-militia-better-equipment-a7893151.html

[obamanut2012]

1. The Cville and UVA PDs also are not trained for this kind of stuff

They especially failed the kids Friday night on the Lawn. Foggy Bottom is just a couple hours away, and I think the FBI needs to come and do some training.

The VSP and NG were absolutely terrible on Saturday, and THAT needs to be looked at.

However, the Gov is right: teh Nazis were better armed than the LEOs.

[bullimiami]

2. Weak excuse. How many shots were fired? None.

So is he saying the police were scared off by the threat?

[DetlefK]

3. So... the cops feared for their lives, but didn't do anything about it???

That's weird, because the cops love to kill people and give the excuse that they "feared for their lives."

[HopeAgain]

4. Thank you all the Second Amendment people...

now we have legal militias of evil people better armed than law enforcement.

When did we give up on gun control?

[Lee-Lee]

5. I am calling bullshit on this

Looking at the pics, most don't have firearms at all.

About 6 "militia" dudes wearing made in China tactical gear with guns showed up early and seemed to have disappeared by the time things got violent.

Most of those guys in the Trump uniform had such tight fitting white polo shirts that and handguns carried concealed would be obviously printing, you don't see it.

The State and local police leadership bungled the handling of this and now he is looking for excuses.

And no- they don't have better equipment than the State Police. It's not true, and if he is claiming it is he is essentially admitting negligence on his part in failing to equip his police.

[hexola]

6. The 80 percent claim seems bit hard to believe

And it doesn't have to be that high - 10-20 percent sounds scary to me!

Wonder where he came up with that?

I wonder if he really meant something like - "80% had better equipment than our guys"

Or "80% of the people displaying weapons had semi-autos"