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The Latest: US officials open civil rights investigation (Ref: Charlottesville, Virginia)
Long Island Newsday ^ | August 12, 2017 | The Associated Press

Posted on 08/12/2017 8:52:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - (AP) -- The Latest on the white nationalist rally being held in Charlottesville (all times local):

11:10 p.m.

U.S. officials have opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances of the deadly car attack that took place amid clashes of white nationalists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The investigation was announced late Saturday by officials of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia and the Richmond field office of the FBI.....

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: agsessions; charlottesville; civilrights; crime; sessions; trumpdoj; virginia
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1 posted on 08/12/2017 8:52:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Make ready the Star Chamber.


2 posted on 08/12/2017 8:55:38 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why would you open a civil rights investigation on a car crash? Is it against the public education system in Charlottesville because the victims couldn’t read and so didn’t understand the word “DODGE” on the front of the car, thus resulting in their deaths?


3 posted on 08/12/2017 8:56:18 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about an investigation for the recent islams murdering Americans on our soil? And what of the blm knockout murders against whites? And flash robbery and assault mobs?

We are governed by idiots.


4 posted on 08/12/2017 8:56:45 PM PDT by soycd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1st Amendment does not grant any citizen to commit or incite violence. One can not yell fire in a crowded theater.

When any violence is committed against an innocent civilian as was the situation in Virginia today, it is the definition of terrorism.

It matters little which laws will be used to prosecute the terrorist action today, just prosecute to the fullest action of law.


5 posted on 08/12/2017 9:03:38 PM PDT by entropy12 (Why Republicans woo & pursue people who will never vote for them (liberals & media) ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They should. That was murder plain and simple


6 posted on 08/12/2017 9:05:01 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Stentor
Some poor souls[ not soros’ goons] are in trouble. Everyone except Soros’s thugs that attended the event today better get their affairs in order. Some of them are going to spend a long time as a guest of the Federal Government. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton the Butchering Bitch of Ben Ghazi and Ambassador Stephens runs free and wide like a free range chicken.
7 posted on 08/12/2017 9:08:56 PM PDT by sport
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#2: "Make ready the Star Chamber."

Maybe they don't know but Virginia has more than enough laws on the books to handle any situation—for well over 400 years. Feds should bugger off. One of the first Americans to articulate our rights lived in this same county.

8 posted on 08/12/2017 9:15:38 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Daily Caller story labels driver as white supremacist.


9 posted on 08/12/2017 9:21:08 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: McGavin999

“They should. That was murder plain and simple.”

Not just murder, an act or terrorism.


10 posted on 08/12/2017 9:22:24 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: RitaOK

Many media outlets labelled that security guard as the Olympic bomber .... until they didn’t.


11 posted on 08/12/2017 9:23:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: McGavin999

Why is murder a civil rights investigation?


12 posted on 08/12/2017 9:23:52 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The investigation should be into why the rights guaranteed to peacefully assemble and petition the government under the first amendment were denied those who had a permit to protest against the rewriting of history by a bunch of leftists who obviously came prepared for trouble - and why the police and elected authorities didn’t protect those rights......


13 posted on 08/12/2017 9:25:06 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought civil rights laws were to protect civilians from abuses of government.


14 posted on 08/12/2017 9:25:20 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: McGavin999

I can remember lots of threads here where lots of us were saying, if facing deadheads blocking a road and we believed ourselves looking at a Reginald Denny situation, we would put the pedal to the metal.
Why so quick to convict?


15 posted on 08/12/2017 9:26:47 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

They open a civil rights investigation because the people in the Federal government are the deep state. They would have been marching at the counter ‘riot’ if they could and they will use the full force of government, no matter what it is, to make free people submit to them.

JoMa


16 posted on 08/12/2017 9:27:27 PM PDT by joma89
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To: soycd
#4: "How about an investigation for the recent islams murdering Americans on our soil? "

Islam. Nuh, nuh, nuh, no! They are so special with their wicky wacky funny code words and Halloween garb. Just don't "break wind" while "making wudoo". Who do the wudoo? You do!

Although the identity of the dead woman has not been released, the fact that Feds are crowing "civil rights" so soon may lead one to infer it. My guess is that the dead woman was probably a Negro if the Feds are involved. Special rules, you know.

17 posted on 08/12/2017 9:28:33 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Timpanagos1; All
Not just murder, an act or terrorism.

It obviously wasn't an act of terrorism. That's just a MSM meme. The ANTIFA and BLM people were beating people bloody at the event (though they were also getting beaten bloody). Assuming this was a deliberate crash or that he wasn't crazy, this was clearly someone losing their cool or otherwise snapping in what was clearly a continuation of a low level warfare.

It's sad that the victims didn't dodge out of the way despite the "DODGE" logo written very clearly on the front of that car. (lol) All that said, a murder or terrorism incident isn't a civil rights investigation. I don't understand the reasoning for this except that BLM and ANTIFA are a protected group of people. BLM and ANTIFA brutally beat people all the time but the Federales never launch an investigation about civil rights over it.

18 posted on 08/12/2017 9:29:20 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Timpanagos1

I’m wondering though what was the motive of the crash, was he on one of the political sides, did he admit to doing it on purpose? those details are important.


19 posted on 08/12/2017 9:29:38 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What needs to happen is a civil rights investigation in the other direction, in Charlottesville as well as Berkeley.

Why was the white group required to get a permit, while the BLM/Antifa group did not get a permit and was allowed by the authorities to block streets and attack people?

What were the instructions out of the offices of the governor, the mayor and the police chief?

Is this a case in which the antifa group is the de facto violent mob ally acting in concert with Democrat authorities to deny civil rights to groups they oppose who are peacefully gathering in protest and abiding by permit requirements?

Certainly in Berkeley one gets the sense that this was the case.

When Obama’s DOJ went into a situation like in Ferguson they sent in a huge force of FBI agents and demanded access to all emails and communications to find if there was a smidgen of evidence to support a theory that the local authorities were violating the civil rights of Obama’s political base.

Will Gentleman Jeff look into whether the Governor and Mayor were imposing a double standard on the application of law enforcement in order to deny federal civil rights to political groups they oppose?


20 posted on 08/12/2017 9:31:15 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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