Posted on 08/16/2017 5:41:00 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Virginia State Police on Tuesday contradicted Gov. Terry McAuliffes (D) claim that Charlottesville protesters had weapons stashed around the city.
McAuliffe made the claim about stashed weapons during an interview on DeRay McKessons podcast Save the People.
Twitter user @nycsouthpaw quoted McAuliffe using the podcast interview to describe protesters, saying, They had battering rams and we had picked up different weapons that they had stashed around the city.
Yet the very next dayAugust 15Virginia State Police countered McAuliffes narrative by denying that any weapons caches were discovered during sweeps of the city. Reasons CJ Ciaramella tweeted:
"I just got comment back from Virginia State Police. They say, contra McAuliffe, no caches of weapons were recovered. "
Moreover, on August 13–the day after the violence in Charlottesville erupted–the New York Times quoted McAuliffe claiming that protesters had “better equipment than [Virginia] State Police had.” Virginia State Police countered this claim as well.
A Virginia State Police spokesperson told CJ Ciaramella, “I can assure you that the Virginia State Police personnel were equipped with more-than-adequate specialized tactical and protective gear for the purpose of fulfilling their duties to serve and protect those in attendance of the August 12 event at Charolottesville.”
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com
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A few decades ago antagonistic protesting groups were never allowed to get anywhere near each other.
In VA, they were intentionally marched into each other. The violence was not prevented it was facilitated. Violence appears to be precisely what the (D) Mayor and Governor wanted.
The RATS ran a ‘libertarian’ to siphon off exactly the 4pts that would have given Cuccinelli the win. Plus massive voter fraud.
The Trump riots here in San Diego
Last year...
PoPo was Brilliant!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!
they funneled the bad guys away from confrontation,,,
From point...to point.... to point.
Until the bad guys were in a little dead end spot...cornered and out numbered
With busses full of cops.
GAME OVER !!!
NOBODY GOT HURT...WOW!
I cannot post what I want to say. The leftist mayor and governor orchestrated an event that caused a death that they are probably happy about to further their causes. All I can say...karma.
Perhaps Virginia really thought Santa Claus was real?
McAwful is a liar and a yankee carpetbagger.
Too many northeastern liberals moved to Virginia and are outvoting real Virginians.
Terry McAuliffe is a liar and he needs to be replaced by a sane person...
McAuliffe as well as the mayor and police chief should face federal charges for violating the civil rights of those marchers in Charlottesville who were given a permit to assemble and then denied the right and ambushed.....
No getting around it - "the Protesters" were legally in the right and the Left incited and committed violence because that's what they do and they thought that the labeling of the protesters would give them all free rein and stay out of jail credentials.
Hope they have enough pictorial evidence to prosecute a few of the Leftist terrorist thugs.
Great to hear. That is how it should be done!
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