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Helicopter Crashes Near Charlottesville, Virginia Riots (after car incident)
Heavy.com ^ | August 12, 2017 | S.J. Prince

Posted on 08/12/2017 2:53:58 PM PDT by Hadean

Reports are coming in that a state police helicopter patrolling the race riots in Charlottesville has crashed on Old Farm Road, near the Birdwood Golf Course at the University of Virginia in Albemarle County. In a video by The Daily Caller, it was first stated that a helicopter had gone down in Charlottesville. Soon after, the above video surfaced.

Twitter Link to Video

The crash was also tweeted about by the Virginia Professional Fire Fighters president, Robert Bragg III.

Videos of VSP aircrafts patrolling the air have been shared since the riots broke out this morning. The latest tragedy comes after video surfaced of a car ramming into a group of counter-protesters at today’s white supremacist rally taking place at the university.

This is a developing story.


TOPICS: US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; cvariots; leo; obamalegacy; virginia
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21 posted on 08/12/2017 3:29:11 PM PDT by deport
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

wow


22 posted on 08/12/2017 3:30:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: AppyPappy

Your facts are incorrect.

Charlottesville did not try to stop the rally. They wanted to relocate it away from the park downtown to another location.

ACLU and a local conservative group both went to federal court to oppose the relocation.

The bigger question should be who let all the counter protesters so close to the location of the rally. I am not sure if that responsibility lies with the City or the VSP (read McAuliffe).
Some of those protestors were clearly locals, but I doubt the BLM protesters were. And I also don’t think they had a permit.


23 posted on 08/12/2017 3:34:03 PM PDT by independentmind (In te Domine confido non confundar in aeternum s)
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To: Hadean

The real kicker is that the media and their leftist troublemaker cohorts could have simply ignored the runup to rally and only a few people in the immediate vicinity would even be aware of it. Then a column inch on page 43 could be all the coverage it needed. And no one would be dead.


24 posted on 08/12/2017 3:47:06 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW!“At 9 a.m. this morning a shipbo Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH)
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To: independentmind

MSNBCNN is slipping up; despite obvious efforts to frame the story, they let a few hammer & sickle flags show in their footage. The hoopla about the “torchlight parade” doesn’t explain why these evil white people caused no violence last night; the Reds that showed up today wanted to fight, and they got one.

One witch on MSNBCNN (I honestly don’t differentiate between them) couldn’t understand why the original demonstrators (opposed to the removal of the statues) were even allowed to gather. Of course she never mentioned why they were there, just called them “white supremacists” of something along those lines.

This is still mild in comparison to what BLM and the anarchists do (without consequences).


25 posted on 08/12/2017 3:47:50 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Hadean

26 posted on 08/12/2017 3:51:52 PM PDT by McGruff (From now on call it McCaincare)
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To: kearnyirish2

Oh, there is most definitely a double standard at play.

But it distresses me to see that so many posters here on FR seem to support the concept of “white rights.”

That is the absolute wring direction to go in.

And I can tell you that there are a lot of fine black people in and around Charlottesville. Conservatives should not purposely act to alienate them.


27 posted on 08/12/2017 3:54:26 PM PDT by independentmind (In te Domine confido non confundar in aeternum s)
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To: kearnyirish2
The antiFASCISTS, the left, blm just cannot have someone they disagree with allowed to be heard.

I feel no need to go to their rallies and cause violence just because I view them as treasonous, terrorist scum.

Had they left these people alone they probably would have peacefully had their say, picked up their trash and gone home.

28 posted on 08/12/2017 3:57:27 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: JimRed

“The real kicker is that the media and their leftist troublemaker cohorts could have simply ignored the runup to rally and only a few people in the immediate vicinity would even be aware of it. Then a column inch on page 43 could be all the coverage it needed. And no one would be dead.”

That would be against their agenda!


29 posted on 08/12/2017 3:59:33 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Eagles6

“Had they left these people alone they probably would have peacefully had their say, picked up their trash and gone home. “

Their agenda is rioting and death, not leaving others alone.


30 posted on 08/12/2017 4:00:55 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Eagles6

That’s right - and since they openly carry USSR flags, let’s just call them communists (remember, they snookered Americans into saving Stalin by calling the Soviets “anti-fascists”).

The media blackout we suffered under Obama has never ended; that is why Trump is forced to use Twitter, and also why their lowlife stormtroops are as emboldened as ever.

It is bizarre to see so many foreigners on TV preaching that the views of the group that wanted to leave the statues are “un-American”. The other night I caught part of “Why Trump Won”, where another foreigner was lecturing us about what our country is all about...


31 posted on 08/12/2017 4:04:29 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SaveFerris

that doesn’t bode well for an easy autorotation...


32 posted on 08/12/2017 4:06:22 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: TexasGator

Yep.


33 posted on 08/12/2017 4:06:33 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: kearnyirish2

True.


34 posted on 08/12/2017 4:07:01 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: SaveFerris

Are you sure?


35 posted on 08/12/2017 4:38:10 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: TexasGator

It certainly is suppressing the free speech of others - and that is exactly what they accomplished today.

When white men have been marginalized for decades, I don’t know what else the government expects other than Freikorps-type groups like these that showed up in VA. They didn’t start the problem, but they were certainly prepared for it.

I would never let my children go away to a vacation-type college; I want them to study and learn, not “play high school” for four more years...


36 posted on 08/12/2017 5:24:46 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: independentmind

They wanted the commies to attack the protesters as usual but this time the protesters were ready for them.


37 posted on 08/12/2017 6:02:05 PM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: SaveFerris

I know. It was a pretty awful night all the way around.

Miracle, notwithstanding!


38 posted on 08/12/2017 7:37:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Hadean

RIP Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, 48, of Midlothian, Va., and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates of Quinton, Va.

39 posted on 08/12/2017 8:59:04 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Biggirl

When a tail rotor is lost, due to failure or enemy fire, the body of the helo will swing in the opposite direction of the rotation of the blades. Sometimes quite violently. If the aircraft is pitched when this happens, even worse.

Oten this is the scenario but until the aircraft is examined who know. I haven’t read the rest of the thread yet so manybe there’s more info.


40 posted on 08/12/2017 11:04:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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