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“Right now, we are going to be looking at the Confederate statues, but in terms of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson, and things of that nature, I think those are conversations we do need to have here in the city of Charlottesville.
By Taylor Cairns, CBS19, March 22, 2016
After Bellamy refused to step down from his position on city council, I conducted a recall petition drive to have him removed from office. Nearly six hundred people signed a legally binding petition to have Bellamy removed from his position.
(Full disclosure: One of the multitudes of triggered Leftists harassing me and my signatories got too close, so I punched him. Much to the delight of the local liberal media I was charged with misdemeanor assault.)
lot of members of the right were moving towards mcentire park, away from the downtown area and starting to gather over there. we headed over there and shortly after we got there a few other leaders of the alt right specifically richard spencer and david duke were there and addressed supporters at mcentire park. quite a few dozen of them. i want you to listen to david duke addressing the crowd here, tim. here s a little of what he said. we are determined to take our country back. we re going to fulfill the promises of donald trump. that s what we believed in, voted for donald trump and because he said he s going to take our country back and that s what we ve got to do. all right. so, tim, describe that moment for us. well, i think standing there, surrounding them, standing on top of picnic tables surrounded by several other white nationalists. a very chaotic scene to say the
between white supremacists and protesto protestors, one woman killed after a car rammed into a large crowd. all told, the violence left more than 30 other people injured. i want to bring in tim dodson from charlottesville. managing editor of the university of virginia student newspaper the cavalier daily. thanks for joining us. tell us exactly what you saw yesterday. yeah. so yesterday we got to emancipation park, where the unite the right rally was planned. before the rally could even start at 12:00 police had declared an an lawful assembly and they weren t able to gather at the park. even before the rally was supposed to start, demonstrators, chaos downtown. chemical irritants in the air. i was choking on it and other members of our reporting team. a tense and chaotic situation in downtown charlottesville. shortly after that unlawful assembly was declared seemed a
statues. city council voted earlier in the year in favor of removing the statue of robert e. lee but that is currently in pending litigation and that question not decided whether or not the city can remove the statues. one of the slogans i was hearing. another one was i think like, we will not be defeated. things like that. in terms of yesterday, david duke, when he was speaking and richard spencer, both of them referencing local officials including mayor michael signer. he s a jewish man and they made anti-semitic comments while david duke and richard spencer were speaking directed at the mayor. interesting. all right. you know, pretty sad, i should say. tim dodson, editor of the student newspaper at the university of virginia. tim, thanks very much. we ll stay in close touch with you as well. back to cnn s brian todd on the scene for us in charlottesville. brian, you re in the middle of a protest that seems to be popping up right now. what can you tell us?
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