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Source: New York Times
As White Nationalist in Charlottesville Fired, Police Never Moved
By FRANCES ROBLES AUG. 25, 2017
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. As demonstrators clashed near a downtown park here two weeks ago, a white nationalist protester in a bulletproof vest turned, pointed a pistol toward the crowd and fired a single shot at the ground, in the direction of a black man wielding an improvised torch.
To make his escape, a video recording shows, the armed protester strolled past a line of about a dozen state police troopers who were safely positioned about 10 feet away behind two metal barricades. None of them budged.
We all heard it and ran I know damn well they heard it, said Rosia Parker, a community activist in Charlottesville. They never moved.
The police have identified a suspect in the shooting and intend to arrest him, the city manager said. But residents are still demanding to know why officers did not act in real time as heavily armed people fought and a car sped toward a crowd, killing a woman. So stark was the police failure to intervene, many participants in the protest and counterprotests believe it was by design.
Now, as white-power organizations declare their intentions to rally in cities around the country, police departments are looking to Charlottesville for hints on how to keep the peace and what mistakes to avoid. Charlottesville, too, is seeking answers. The city announced on Friday that it had hired a former United States attorney to evaluate the planning and response to three white supremacist events in the city this year. The final rally, a show of power by white supremacist groups, was ostensibly held to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general.
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By FRANCES ROBLES AUG. 25, 2017
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. As demonstrators clashed near a downtown park here two weeks ago, a white nationalist protester in a bulletproof vest turned, pointed a pistol toward the crowd and fired a single shot at the ground, in the direction of a black man wielding an improvised torch.
To make his escape, a video recording shows, the armed protester strolled past a line of about a dozen state police troopers who were safely positioned about 10 feet away behind two metal barricades. None of them budged.
We all heard it and ran I know damn well they heard it, said Rosia Parker, a community activist in Charlottesville. They never moved.
The police have identified a suspect in the shooting and intend to arrest him, the city manager said. But residents are still demanding to know why officers did not act in real time as heavily armed people fought and a car sped toward a crowd, killing a woman. So stark was the police failure to intervene, many participants in the protest and counterprotests believe it was by design.
Now, as white-power organizations declare their intentions to rally in cities around the country, police departments are looking to Charlottesville for hints on how to keep the peace and what mistakes to avoid. Charlottesville, too, is seeking answers. The city announced on Friday that it had hired a former United States attorney to evaluate the planning and response to three white supremacist events in the city this year. The final rally, a show of power by white supremacist groups, was ostensibly held to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/us/charlottesville-protest-police.html
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As White Nationalist in Charlottesville Fired, Police 'Never Moved' (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2017
OP
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)1. fucking cops usually are just as racist
as the alt right, klan etc
sheshe2
(84,032 posts)2. They were probably all KKK members.
Iggo
(47,587 posts)3. Yay, Cops!
They're the best!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)4. Cops in a small southern town.
Chances of them being racists: 100%