graduate. charlottesville at its heart is a peaceful, tranquil town. aside from the horrific town behind here on water street with the cars over at a park called emancipation park, formerly lee park, we saw people massing there well confederate flags and shouting slogans like you will not replace us, jew will not replace us. no sooner have they converged on the park and then counterprotesters, black lives matter groups, the anti-fascist groups surrounded the park and things got chaotic and violent very quickly. people were being clubbed in the streets. there was pepper spray thrown. there was even it sounds awful and it was awful, urine thrown and before long, the police basically retreated to
congressman brat, we ll let you know. thank you for making time this evening. thank you, sir. joining us right now is a reverend who led last night s interfaith service in charlottesville. sir, good to have you with me. what a difference 24 hours can make. the congressman was talking about the importance of moral language how do you feel now that charlottesville is challenged with three fatalities after the clashes today and helicopter crash how do you feel it can enhance your community. thank you for having me. we have a lot of shock and drama and long work ahead to dismantle and overcome white supremacy.
and weren t nearby in the state today but explain what it means for you as an elected leader and as a resident of virginia and of a community nearby to see what took place in charlottesville today in knowing that there are three families who don t have their loved one returning home tonight because of a white nationalist rally. prayers go out to the families and those injured by the groups that have hate in their hearts. i condemn them all across the board and it s important to name names. the nazi groups it s important that some of our kids out there aren t be educated about who these groups are. the neo-nazis, hitler, he claimed to be the third holy roman empire and third coming
two state troopers killed in that. so all of this comes together to create one of the most horrific days in charlottesville, at least in recent memory and history. all of that you ll recall is the statue of the confederate war general robert e. lee which charlottesville s city council voted to remove from the middle of the town and that sparked this outrage from the white nationalists, from the alt-right movement, who thought that in fact he should that that statue should not be taken down and it represents, in their view, an attack on white nationalism, on their religion, and in the view of some that we talked to, the white man in the south. so that created the tension. it boiled over last night in really an eerie scene at nightfall we saw many of the white nationalists coming through the streets of charlottesville carrying torches
incident insofar as why it went down. and it is a question to ask about why it had come under some kind of an attack because of the confirmation from so many eyewitnesss of carrying firearms, open firearms reporter: yes. but i do need to stress this, because it crashed several miles away from charlottesville and from where we are. i have nothing from anybody to suggest that that may have been a factor. we ll continue to ask the questions. great, tom. thank you very much. the police chief, too, they did not give much insight. terry mcauliffe, about details of the two troopers. careful about the conjecture. absolutely. our tom costello on the scene there for us. i want to bring in now karen wood. she was very close to the site