A state of emergency has been declared in Charlottesville for the one year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally. Hundreds of police and soldiers have been deployed to the city in the name of public safety even though there is no march planned there.
A year after a violent white nationalist rally “Unite The Right” left three dead and dozens injured, the city is taking extra safety precautions this weekend ahead of the movement’s 2018 rally reboot three hours away in Washington, D.C., Sunday.
With the city eerily quiet from the lack of vehicle traffic, a group of around 50 anti-fascist supporters walked through parts of downtown on Saturday – many dressed in black and wearing headbands. Some members, reflecting their protest of white nationalism, carried a large banner reading: “Good Night, White Pride.”
Charlottesville was both riddled with concrete barriers, metal fences, security checkpoints and adorned with flowers, notes of solidarity and apologies for the violence that unfolded last August when white nationalists bearing torches marched through the University of Virginia campus.
Amid heavy police presence on sidewalks and at checkpoints, police confiscated a pair of brass knuckles, a razor, knife and aerosol cans, city officials said.
Both the Jewish media along with the leftist city and state governments are trying to make a big deal out of the anniversary. Presumably this is because they think they can score political points by crying about racism or whatever. It seems pretty silly for them to deploy all these police. They had plenty of police last year and the police exacerbated the violence by refusing to separate the two sides. They even forced our side into the anti-fascists when they cleared Lee Park with a convoy of riot police.
Whatever the case, the idea that they need to declare a state of emergency because of this anniversary is retarded. It’s just a dumb political stunt.
