America by Chris Hedges
Author:Chris Hedges
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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PROTESTERS FROM ANTIFA AND THE alt-right converged in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. The clash was sparked by the proposed removal of Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s statue. The “Unite the Right” rally to protest the removal attracted influential white supremacists such as former KKK grand wizard David Duke and writers from the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi publication.
“When the Trayvon Martin case happened, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, every single case it’s some little black asshole behaving like a savage and he gets himself in trouble shockingly enough,” Christopher Cantwell, one of “Unite the Right” rally’s white supremacist speakers, told VICE News. “Whatever problems I might have with my fellow white people, they generally are not inclined to such behavior. You gotta take that into consideration when you’re thinking about how to organize your society. . . . This is a part of the reason why we want an ethnostate. The blacks are killing each other in staggering numbers from coast to coast. We don’t really want to have a part in that anymore. The fact that they resist us when we say, hey, we want a homeland, it’s not shocking to me. These people want violence. And the Right is just meeting market demand.”94
“This represents a turning point for the people of this country,” Duke said in Charlottesville. “We are determined to take our country back. We’re going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump.”95
Violence erupted before the rally started. Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency by 11:30 in the morning.
At noon, when the rally was scheduled to begin, white nationalist marchers, under pressure from crowds of antifa, retreated toward the Market Street parking garage. Antifa pursued them. A group of neo-Nazis separated DeAndre Harris, a twenty-year-old member of Black Lives Matter, from the counter-protesters and chased him into the garage.
They tore down the garage’s wooden barricades and attacked Harris. Some used steel poles to beat him into unconsciousness. Counter-protesters flooded in to rescue Harris. The neo-Nazis, outnumbered, let him go.
The police arrived after Harris was pulled out of the garage. A large green Virginia state armored police vehicle blocked access to the garage. The National Guard, in camouflage helmets and bulletproof vests, carrying transparent shields, entered the garage after Harris was rescued. They soon reemerged and blocked antifa from reentering the parking facility.
Harris was bleeding profusely from his head and mouth.
“Every time I went to stand up I was knocked back down,” Harris wrote later on his GoFundMe page. “If it was not for my friends that I came with I would have been beaten to a pulp.”96
He suffered a concussion, an ulnar fracture in his arm, and required eight staples in his head.97
Darrell Vaughn, twenty-two, was standing alone with his Confederate flag around the corner from the garage. He looked nervous. He had been separated from his friends when counter-protesters attacked them. He had a deep gash on the left side of his forehead. Vaughn’s face, neck, and hands were smeared with blood.
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