Charlottesville PD really did screw up here, trying to cover your tracks just makes it worse. It has to be more than just this one guy though.
Eff this and I am outta here.
He voted to go , especially with the big redundancy check .
I wonder if Chief Thomas was slow to act because he thought a lighter touch would temper the loss-of-life factor. I don’t know but it just seems to me it was a miracle more people didn’t die that day in Charlottesville.
I live in the area, and I have wondered the same thing. Virginia law allows people to carry bazookas around the grocery store, and the site of the unrest was a series of enclosed downtown streets that would have turned into a shooting gallery if the Nazis had started using their heavy weapons (a police request to have the whole thing moved to a different, more controllable area was fought by the ACLU and denied by a judge). One can certainly evaluate the outcome and try to learn from it, and I have heard from someone who was there that police were letting scuffles and fights go, which certainly isn’t what I would hope for. At the same time, the police were boxed in by GOP-crafted laws that are a wet dream for the NRA. What I don’t understand is why they didn’t deny the permit on the basis of public safety given the firepower that could be expected. Fortunately, they did just that the other day in response to a request from the Nazis to do it all again next August. Now we can hope the courts uphold that decision.