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Recounting a day of rage, hate, violence and death
There are many maps and aerial views of Charlottesville in this article. Out-of-towners will find them useful.
If you've run out of free views of pages at the Washington Post, try going in through the Twitter feed. I do not know if that trick will work for the Post the way it works for The Wall Street Journal., but what have you got to lose? See the tweet at the end.
Recounting a day of rage, hate, violence and death
How a rally of white nationalists and supremacists at the University of Virginia turned into a “tragic, tragic weekend.”
By Joe Heim Aug. 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/JoeHeim
joe.heim@washpost.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Rumors circulated all week. Details were scant. No time or place was certain, but the word was that white nationalists and supremacists coming to town for Saturday’s Unite the Right rally had a Friday night surprise. They were going to march in a torchlight procession — a symbolic gathering meant to evoke similar marches of Hitler Youth and other ultraright nationalist organizations of the past century.
A little after 8 p.m., Richard Spencer, a leader of far-right white nationalists and a scheduled headline speaker at the Saturday rally, texted a reporter. ... “I’d be near campus tonight, if I were you,” he wrote. “After 9 p.m. Nameless field.”
The rumor was true. The torchlight parade was on. It would prove to be the catalyst for a horrific 24 hours in this usually quiet college town that would come to be seen by the nation and world as a day of racial rage, hate, violence and death. ... When it was over, questions about how this could happen centered on three groups: a meticulously organized, well coordinated and heavily armed company of white nationalists; a fiercely resistant and determined group of counterprotesters prepared to stop the Saturday rally; and state and local authorities who seemed caught off guard by the boldness and persistence of both groups.
By 8:45 p.m. Friday, a column of about 250 mostly young white males, many wearing khaki pants and white polo shirts, began to stretch across the shadowy Nameless Field, a large expanse of grass behind Memorial Gymnasium at the University of Virginia. Their torches, filled with kerosene by workers at a nearby table, were still dark.
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White nationalists staged a torchlit march on the campus of the University of Virginia on Aug. 11 ahead of a planned far-right rally. (Twitter/Tim Dodson via Storyful, The Cavalier Daily)
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Graphics by Aaron Steckelberg and Kevin Uhrmacher. Design and development by Danielle Rindler and Shelly Tan.
How a rally of white nationalists and supremacists at the University of Virginia turned into a “tragic, tragic weekend.”
By Joe Heim Aug. 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/JoeHeim
joe.heim@washpost.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Rumors circulated all week. Details were scant. No time or place was certain, but the word was that white nationalists and supremacists coming to town for Saturday’s Unite the Right rally had a Friday night surprise. They were going to march in a torchlight procession — a symbolic gathering meant to evoke similar marches of Hitler Youth and other ultraright nationalist organizations of the past century.
A little after 8 p.m., Richard Spencer, a leader of far-right white nationalists and a scheduled headline speaker at the Saturday rally, texted a reporter. ... “I’d be near campus tonight, if I were you,” he wrote. “After 9 p.m. Nameless field.”
The rumor was true. The torchlight parade was on. It would prove to be the catalyst for a horrific 24 hours in this usually quiet college town that would come to be seen by the nation and world as a day of racial rage, hate, violence and death. ... When it was over, questions about how this could happen centered on three groups: a meticulously organized, well coordinated and heavily armed company of white nationalists; a fiercely resistant and determined group of counterprotesters prepared to stop the Saturday rally; and state and local authorities who seemed caught off guard by the boldness and persistence of both groups.
By 8:45 p.m. Friday, a column of about 250 mostly young white males, many wearing khaki pants and white polo shirts, began to stretch across the shadowy Nameless Field, a large expanse of grass behind Memorial Gymnasium at the University of Virginia. Their torches, filled with kerosene by workers at a nearby table, were still dark.
....
White nationalists staged a torchlit march on the campus of the University of Virginia on Aug. 11 ahead of a planned far-right rally. (Twitter/Tim Dodson via Storyful, The Cavalier Daily)
....
Graphics by Aaron Steckelberg and Kevin Uhrmacher. Design and development by Danielle Rindler and Shelly Tan.
30 clergy members sang “This Little Light of Mine.” White nationalists roared back, “Our blood, our soil!”
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Now gathering around statue of Thomas Jefferson. Chanting 'white lives matter!'
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Retweeted by Joe Heim: https://twitter.com/JoeHeim
WHO IS THIS MAN with the read beard?
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