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Reporter: Police Were Called Off When Violence Started – They Said, "We’re Leaving"
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Aug 13th, 2017

Posted on 08/13/2017 4:16:12 PM PDT by Helicondelta

FOX News reporter Doug McKelway attended the violent protests Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.

McKelway told FOX News viewers the police pulled out of Lee Park after the violence started. The police told him, “We’re leaving. It’s too dangerous.”

Doug McKelway: We are now beginning to hear criticism bubble up on all sides of this event about the initial slow response by the police. When I got out of my car yesterday in Charlottesville about 10:30 in the morning you knew this was a bad scene and bad things were going to be happening because people were congregating at Lee Park and Emancipation Park wearing helmets, body armor, carrying big heavy sticks. Nobody was intent on peace here from either side. People were intent on causing havoc and causing damage. And even as wounded were being brought out of the park police were sitting idly by. I was standing off a cordoned off area where the police had set up as a staging area, the state police, and they said you can come in here this is a safe area. But when the tear gas started to fly, thrown by protesters, the police themselves began to evacuate then. I asked the guy who was in charge, “Where you going?” He said, “We’re leaving. It’s too dangerous.” They had a chance to nip this thing in the bud and they chose not to.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifa; bloggers; charlottesville; cowards; cvapolice; cvapolicestanddown; cvariots; donutwatch; leo; police; riots; trump; violence; virginia
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To: DoodleDawg

Then choose neither and slink off to a country where your white skin is welcome. Oh, sorry, there isn’t one. Too bad.


21 posted on 08/13/2017 4:34:15 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: DoodleDawg
Considering that both sides came looking for trouble I’m not sure I blame the police for not wanting to wind up in the middle, job or no job.


I am sympathetic with your reasoned justification for this police inaction. Too bad there weren't several hundred national guardsmen who could have gotten between the two hate groups.
22 posted on 08/13/2017 4:34:28 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Same ones who funded the “protesters” at the GOP & DEM conventions.

A paper trail was there, but nothing ever came of it.


23 posted on 08/13/2017 4:35:03 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Pelham
This is identical to Berkeley.

Berkeley cops said, "Hey EVERYONE who enters the park for protesting has to give up their mace, or whatever, ANYTHING that could be construed as any type of weapon, including sign poles, and consent to manual pat-down prior to entry..!!!"

And almost everybody who was INVITED did that --they gave up all their stuff.

And it was so weird cuz all the AntiFa were standing around the protest park periphery. Then they sling-shot in M-80's and in response "FOR SAFETY..!!" the cops CLOSE THE PARK..!

Bingo, two groups that loathe each-other, and ONE of them was totally disarmed..!!

24 posted on 08/13/2017 4:35:23 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: TTFlyer

So the cops should have mutinied against orders?


25 posted on 08/13/2017 4:36:48 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: wastoute
Crass as it may seem, there are two sides here. Pick one.

This thing was staged. Both sides with the same Tiki torches and the same store-bought signs.

26 posted on 08/13/2017 4:37:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Booth)
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To: ncalburt

State Police report to the Governor


27 posted on 08/13/2017 4:37:55 PM PDT by expat2
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To: DoodleDawg

Like you, I have spent almost 20 years wondering when “the day will come”. Well it has. Get ready to get off your Barcalounger and hep these kids out.


28 posted on 08/13/2017 4:38:28 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: silverleaf

The mayor, the Gov. and the liberals in VA played this for politics. The idiot mayor waited to long to give police power plus the damn liberal Gov let the NG sit on it’s ass.


29 posted on 08/13/2017 4:39:57 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Bang


30 posted on 08/13/2017 4:40:06 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: wastoute
Then choose neither and slink off to a country where your white skin is welcome. Oh, sorry, there isn’t one. Too bad.

Sorry but I don't see where you get to be a Nazi and also a patriotic American. I mean we literally fought a war to decide that. By the same token I don't see where you get to be a racial supremacist and be a patriotic American. That goes against everything I believe is right. Likewise I don't see where you get to be a left wing fascist and be a patriotic America. That flies in the face of everything the Constitution stands for. You can choose to be on one side or the other. I can't stomach either one.

31 posted on 08/13/2017 4:40:52 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: gaijin

That Berkeley mayor and the chief of police have connections to Antifa and BAMN. The same is true for San Jose and Oakland. I really hope Sessions has investigators hot on their heels.


32 posted on 08/13/2017 4:41:10 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: little jeremiah

You don’t obey unlawful orders. Precedent was set, ironically, at the Nuremburg trials.


33 posted on 08/13/2017 4:41:23 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Helicondelta
That mirrors a FReeper first hand account and other reports have said that the cops deliberately herded the Unite the Right group into a large crowd of Antifa thugs.
34 posted on 08/13/2017 4:41:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; wastoute
This thing was staged.

Totally agree.

35 posted on 08/13/2017 4:42:30 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: wastoute

The variouas levels of government are a 3rd party.

And the Media a fourth.


36 posted on 08/13/2017 4:43:02 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well that’s a relief. No one died or were injured either, right?


37 posted on 08/13/2017 4:43:16 PM PDT by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: DoodleDawg

So you quit the battle because the enemy called you a name? Thanks for your support.


38 posted on 08/13/2017 4:43:50 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: TTFlyer

“My support for the police is ebbing quickly.”

Yep. Mine too. Time and time again they show themselves to be nothing more than lackeys and thugs for the Deep State and enemies of the people. When the lid blows off things won’t be pretty for Officers Toody and Muldoon. Andy and Barney better watch out, too. We know where they live...


39 posted on 08/13/2017 4:43:56 PM PDT by DrPretorius
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To: Helicondelta

In a sense the police were put in the non win situation

“IF YOU ARE UP TO YOUR NECK IN $HIITE & SOMEONE THROWS A BUCKET OF SNOT AT YOU, DO YOU DUCK?”

If the Police have NO confidence in their Mayor/City Council/Dept Heads etc then why get your head bashed in when you will eventually end up getting blamed if you use force to quell things.

THAT Said, quit drawing the paycheck if you are not willing or able to DO YOUR JOB, which sadly enough, includes protecting the citizenry from itself at time.


40 posted on 08/13/2017 4:44:49 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""There is more to life than being a passenger. Amelia Earhart")
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