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charlottesville va protest video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4MKwzPYrbk ^

Posted on 08/13/2017 5:30:29 PM PDT by PCPOET7

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To: freeandfreezing

Ok It’s the white car rear-ending the van that sends it into the crowd. The Challenger isn’t on scene in the first (rear) view. IN the second frontal shot the Challenger has been and gone.


41 posted on 08/13/2017 6:26:56 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: freeandfreezing
The most interesting thing I noted in that video is that the Antifa protestors carefully held their large banner even after the collision, and obvious injury to people all around them. That shows their dedication to getting their message out.

How many people do you know who would keep holding on to their banner if they were right next to a terrible accident with many injured people. Wouldn't the natural response be to drop the banner and start trying to help?


I initially wondered about that as well, but I believe it was being used as a shield for the injured. It may have been the person that lost their life. You can see the yellow vests of emergency responders next to and behind the banner.
42 posted on 08/13/2017 6:27:48 PM PDT by simon says what
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To: Runner4life

F their orders, your job is protect citizens


43 posted on 08/13/2017 6:30:22 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

the car in your video is different from the one in the first video.


44 posted on 08/13/2017 6:48:50 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: PCPOET7

This is only one and significantly obscured view of the incident. Other videos show the crowd attacking the the prior to going forward into the crowd.

In my opinion, that video supports the claim of self defense.


45 posted on 08/13/2017 7:20:52 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: Mariner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Plzx73K68

I grant that the driver was going too fast toward a crowd. There is a fair chance that he had a malicious intent. But you can see someone in the crowd smash his car with a bat BEFORE there is a collision. Perhaps that’s why the driver ended up rear-ending the car in front of him? Panicked because he was being attacked?

And see the video in #37 just above. As soon as there was a collision — as if by magic — the crowd whips out all of their baseball bats and starts beating on him in unison as the driver backs up. These were not peaceful people.

This case is more complex than basic news reports want to say.


46 posted on 08/13/2017 7:24:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: PCPOET7

The only thing the video shows was that Antifa was intentionally obstructing the intersection.


47 posted on 08/13/2017 7:42:53 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: ClearCase_guy

OK, imagine your the guy driving. After you leave your protest you get channeled down a narrow alley. When suddenly you realize you in enemy territory and your wearing the wrong uniform. As you proceed down the alley one of the guys notices you, whacks your car, then announces to everyone, Hey! We got a Nazi here. So you continue heading down the alley hoping for an escape only to encounter an angry mob.


48 posted on 08/13/2017 7:48:34 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper

Yup. I currently see this as self-defense.


49 posted on 08/13/2017 7:53:56 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: moehoward
I suspect that the driver has a pretty good defense for rapidly driving away after the initial collisions. As soon as his car stops a group of Antifa attack it with baseball bats.

This video shows it clearly

The important question is what lead to the initial collision, after the driver apparently braked to avoid people at the edge of the crowd.

50 posted on 08/13/2017 8:02:13 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: TigerClaws

If there was a gathering at a CA Congresscritters office by rt-wingers fighting a high gas tax there would have been hundreds of cops


51 posted on 08/13/2017 8:03:50 PM PDT by magna carta
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~20->50


52 posted on 08/13/2017 8:19:10 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: Texas Eagle; Liz; Grampa Dave

... from a time when the goal of the country was to heal after the civil war - not endlessly pick wounds, fight, or gin up hatred. General Grant allows General Robert E. Lee to keep his sword...

http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/appomattoxsurrender.html

“On April 9, 1865, after learning that his army
had been unable to break through encircling
Union lines at the Battle of Appomattox Court
House, General Robert E. Lee told his staff
that there was nothing left for him to do but
“go and see General Grant, and I would
rather die a thousand deaths.”

After four years of bitter war against larger
armies and more advanced weaponry, the
famed Army of Northern Virginia had finally
been cornered in the fields and pastures
surrounding the little Virginia town of
Appomattox Court House. Dramatically out-
numbered and cut off from any hope of
supply or reinforcement, Lee made one last
attempt to cut his way out. When the effort
failed, he sent a letter to General Ulysses S.
Grant requesting a meeting with the Union
commander.

Grant was then about twelve miles away from
Appomattox Court House near present-day
Hixburg, Virginia. He was suffering from a
severe headache that morning as he rode on
horseback, pushing his men forward in an all
out effort to cut off Lee’s maneuver to unit his
army with that of General Joseph E. Johnston
in North Carolina. When the letter arrived
from the Confederate general, however,
Grant’s headache vanished.

Union officers sent to arrange the conference
found General Lee sitting under an apple
tree. He summoned his staff and rode with
Grant’s emissaries into Appomattox Court
House to arrange a suitable location for the
meeting.

As the party of officers, some in blue and
some in gray, arrived in town, Lieutenant
Colonel Charles Marshall (Lee’s
Aid-de-Camp) spotted local resident Wilmer
McLean. Riding up to the man, he inquired if
he knew of a building where the two generals
could meet. McLean pointed out an empty
structure. When he realized it would be
unsuitable for what was about to take place,
however, he offered his own home.

Arrangements were made to receive the
generals in the parlor of the McLean House.
General Lee arrived first, reaching the house
at around 1 p.m. and taking a seat in the
parlor to await the arrival of his adversary. He
was dressed in his finest uniform.

Grant arrived about thirty minutes later,
wearing a simple uniform that was dirty and
splattered with mud from his hard ride.

The two commanders, both veterans of the
Mexican War, talked cordially for about twenty-
five minutes before Lee finally raised the
topic of his surrender.

Despite his reputation as “Unconditional
Surrender” Grant, the Union general offered
generous terms to his defeated foe. The
entire Army of Northern Virginia would be
paroled, soldiers with horses or mules could
take them home and officers would be
allowed to keep their side arms. The last
clause spared Lee from the humiliation of a
classic surrender of his sword.

Lee accepted the terms and the two men
signed the final agreement in the parlor of
the McLean House as a host of officers from
both sides looked on in silence. Among them
was a man who would later meet his own
destiny at the Little Big Horn, General George
Armstrong Custer.

The generous terms offered to General Lee
by General Grant did much to ease tensions
among the Confederates. Provided with
rations by the Federals, they signed their
paroles and began making their long trips
home.


53 posted on 08/13/2017 8:48:25 PM PDT by GOPJ (Shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety-James Damore-fired for speaking truth)
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To: Helicondelta

#10. Both films are almost useless.


54 posted on 08/13/2017 10:44:15 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: freeandfreezing

THis is a much better tape. Shows several things;

1. There was a license plate on the car, perhaps not on the front, but definitely on the back.
2. Leftist demonstrations were “armed” with baseball bats and perhaps iron pipes.
3. The driver of the Charger deliberately drove into the crowd.
4.This is the first time that someone put up a resistance to the Marxist/anarchist rabble mobs except for a friend of mine who decked one armed punk who was trying to destroy a large storefront window.

The Left WANTS THIS TYPE OF MINDLESS RESISTANCE so that they can officially declare a “self-defense war” against capitalists, white racists, Free Speech advocates, and American society as a whole.

There will be more such acts of “resistance” and they are going to be bloody as hell. The police failed miserably to control what they knew was a volatile situation. It seems that the Mayor and City Managers are mainly to blame. I’ll add in the Chief of Police if evidence is presented that he acted like a coward.


55 posted on 08/13/2017 10:54:36 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: PCPOET7

Unfortunately, the drone misses the main point of impact area..


56 posted on 08/14/2017 12:00:09 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Btw, he did not go into reverse until they started beating on the vehicle. Watch the reverse backup light.


57 posted on 08/14/2017 12:03:48 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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