I think you have the Cville PD wrong.
The University has a separate force.
None of the Cville PD cops I have encountered look like what you have described. This is Central Virginia after all.
My guess is that a lot of the police officers don’t even live in the city.
Charlottesville is deeply blue. It is surrounded by Albemarle County, which is blue—but only recently.
The rest of Central Virginia is deep red.
.....ok “Independent Mind”...........first, I appreciate your gentlemanly comments or if your a lady your lady like comments to my post.
I just listened (Monday night, 6pm) to Police Chief Al Thomas’s statement at a news conference. It appears to me that he is blaming everything on the Alt Right and NOTHING on the police department.
My comments that you responded to were based upon a source that is certainly not right wing. Namely it was a Fox News reporter and one of their big name guys. I think it was McElroy or something like that.
Anyway, he says that the Charlottesville PD retreated just as the all out fight began and the officer in charge told him “we’re outta here..........it’s too dangerous”.
So, with reports like this, we now have a Police Chief saying...........in effect..........”ohhhhh no.........we were in the middle of the fight all the time”. So, who’s lying is all I want to know.
If the Fox News guy is telling the truth, then the Charlottesville police (and the mayors and McAuliffe) are responsible for the injured and for the girl Heather’s death.
Many police departments put the statement “to protect and to serve” on their police cars. Where was Heather’s protection? Fox news says they were runnin and hidin.
FYI, in many years on FR, I have written MANY posts in support of police and usually try hard to give them the benefit of the doubt. But, if citizens were out trying to kill each other in street fights and the Charlottesville PD was hiding then they should all be fired immediately and bring in the National Guard until replacements can be hired.