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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTorch-wielding protesters chanting 'Russia is our friend' rally at Confederate statue in Virginia
Torch-wielding protesters chanting 'Russia is our friend' rally at Confederate statue in VirginiaBY Nicole Hensley NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, May 14, 2017, 5:41 AM
Torch-wielding white supremacists rallied around a Robert E. Lee statue slated for removal and chanted Russia is our friend" in Virginia Saturday night.
The group surrounding the Confederate statue in Charlottesvilles Lee Park extinguished their torches and left as cops swarmed the street just before 9:30 p.m., according to the Daily Progress newspaper.
It was not immediately clear which group was behind the unsettling stunt but extremist Richard Spencer claimed that he was among the torchbearers after protesting at a similar rally in Jackson Park hours earlier.
The 39-year-old right-wing radical tweeted a photo of himself brandishing a torch during the rally. Charlottesville is home to Spencers alma mater, the University of Virginia.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/torch-wielding-protesters-rally-confederate-statue-virginia-article-1.3164235
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Torch-wielding protesters chanting 'Russia is our friend' rally at Confederate statue in Virginia (Original Post)
workinclasszero
May 2017
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Squinch
(51,015 posts)1. But one article I read on it says that the "rally" only lasted 10 minutes at which time it
had to be broken up due to fighting among the protesters.
They can't even get along with each other.
underpants
(182,883 posts)2. Literally "useful idiots"
This is alarming. It's only down the road and HOUR from here.
dhill926
(16,358 posts)3. what the hell....
chanting "Russia is our friend..." Shit just gets weirder and weirder...
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. Fascists choose ideology over country
Republicans are traitors.
William769
(55,148 posts)5. OMFG
I have no words.