Make ready the Star Chamber.
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?
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.
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.
They should. That was murder plain and simple
Daily Caller story labels driver as white supremacist.
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......
I thought civil rights laws were to protect civilians from abuses of government.
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?
Do it right, this time. Investigate both groups. You’ll come up with some surprises that you want see in the leftist/liberal MSM.
The left is going to make the protest all about one person who did something stupid.
Typical. If nothing else; the left is really good at making a mountain out of a molehill.
That’s nice.
So uh, where was DoJ when Mexican thugs were attacking Trump supporters in San Jose, ANTIFA terrorists were attacking Milo supporters in Berkeley?
But now they’re mad....some sacred Leftists picked a fight and got really hurt.
Rip Van Sessions wakes up.
I’ve noticed all the news coverage and article postings never seem to mention the BLM or antifa protesters; instead just keep stating it was “white supremeists”.
Guess they didn’t care to mention the signs held by protesters where the car incident occurred, which were pro BLM and used curse words to prove it on their signs.
Our news media is so biased that it is quickly becoming useless; and that includes Fox News who is spouting the same crap.
Who was in a position to deny anyone their civil rights? A murdering fool sure doesn’t have that “authority”.....
As long as they begin their investigation with the “permit games” being played by the local council it has a chance of being an honest investigation.
And don’t leave out the governor. McAulliffe was plenty worried about the alt right, with no history of violence, and no concern at all about antifa, that does have a history of violence.
Gov favoritism of one group over another is a violation. Showing up to disrupt someone else’s peaceful protest is a violation.
If they only look at the driver, it’s a sham. There are plenty of civil rights violations to go around here.
Charlottesville Police and Virginia State Police donned riot gear and forcefully moved peaceful White members of the Alt-Right who lawfully assembled in a park (with a permit), while allowing violent BLM, ANTIFA, and other assorted left wingers (without a permit) to run amok. Sad day for the 1st Amendment.
“Civil Rights Investigation” = (Federal) Political Crimes Investigation. BTW, have the federal authorities characterized the demonstration as “White Nationalist” (a baby-step removed from declaring them Nazis), or is it the Democrat Media jumping to that conclusion?