Charlottesville Information
I’m seeing a lot of posts taking events in Charlottesville out of context on both sides, so if you want to know what’s actually going on, look at the City of Charlottesville’s official twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/CvilleCityHall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Other reputable local news sources are The Daily Progress (http://www.dailyprogress.com/) and NBC29 local news (http://www.nbc29.com/)
We know that several have been injured, one person is dead, and that people have been arrested. No, we do not know who has been arrested yet.
Posts claiming Richard Spencer has been arrested are unverified so far (though fingers crossed). Posts claiming “City of Charlottesville police stood by” while counterprotesters got beaten on campus last night are misleading. It was University amd City police who responded and broke up the white nationalist protestors who were attacking counterprotesters, arrested one white nationalist, and one university cop was injured. http://www.nbc29.com/story/36121424/charlottesville-mayor-uva-president-respond-to-torch-lit-gathering.
No, we dont know if any of the arrests so far have been the man who plowed into the counterprotesters.
Stop making us who stand against racism and hate look bad by spreading false information about what’s going on in my backyard, because doing that only hurts us. It’s bad enough that Nazis have made my town ground fucking zero.
I’ll update as I know more, but source your posts and dont give Nazis any more ammunition.
Please reblog.
Updates (with apologies for the poor formatting. I’m on mobile)
There have been several arrests announced so far. The man who mowed down counterprotesters has been arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder, amongst other crimes.
https://twitter.com/CvilleCityHall/status/896547588144599040
At least 3 other arrests have been made. Unfortunately it looks like none of them are Nazi McPunchMyFace.
https://twitter.com/CvilleCityHall/status/896547588144599040
It looks like the woman who was killed is named Heather Hayer. This is the link to the gofundme to support her family.
https://www.gofundme.com/our-sisters-keeper-heatherheyer
There is a lot of confusion about police behavior over the weekend. NBC29 is reporting that people on both sides felt police didn’t intervene to keep the peace quickly enough.
Videos I watched yesterday of police trying to break up the morning riot have disappeared, and in a lot of the new videos coming out, the police are nowhere to be seen.
Our Vice Mayor Dr. Wes Bellamy said that the police did the best they could, and I trust that man implicitly. But he also acknowledges that Charlottesville has a sketchy history when it comes to the police.
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/12/543096680/white-supremacist-rally-in-virginia-turns-violent
So in my opinion it sounds like a mixed bag. Some police got involved and tried to keep the peace, some stood by. We need to wait until the dust settles to know more.
These are the videos taken by the Daily Progress of the rally before shit got really bad. Watch these if you want to know what the rally was actually like.
https://m.facebook.com/pg/dailyprogress/videos/
Trigger warnings for Nazis amd strong language. It’s a lot of unedited, on the ground footage taken by a trusted local news source.
Stay woke and keep Charlottesville in your hearts, y'all. We need it now more than ever.
