I wonder if it has something to do with stuff like this?
Posted on 08/17/2017 10:18:52 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said police found weapons stashed by white nationalists. Police say they didn't
Contradicting statements by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Virginia State Police say they did not find caches of weapons stashed around Charlottesville in advance of last Saturday's deadly white nationalist rally.
In an interview Monday on the Pod Save the People podcast, hosted by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, McAuliffe claimed the white nationalists who streamed into Charlottesville that weekend hid weapons throughout the town.
"They had battering rams and we had picked up different weapons that they had stashed around the city," McAuliffe told Mckesson.
McAuliffe's comments were picked up by other news outlets and spread through social media. But Corinne Geller, a spokesperson for the Virginia State Police, says that no such stashes were found.
"The governor was referring to the briefing provided him in advance of Saturday's rally and the extra security measures being taken by local and state police," Geller tells Reason. "As a safety precaution in advance of August 12, such searches were conducted in and around Emancipation and McIntire Parks. No weapons were located as a result of those searches."
The Virginia State Police also disputed McAuliffe's claims that Virginia State Police were underequipped to deal with the heavily armed militia members at Saturday's rally.
"The governor was referencing the weapons and tactical gear the members of various groups attending the rally had on their persons," Geller says. "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 in Charlottesville."
McAuliffe claimed in an interview with The New York Times that law enforcement arrived to find a line of militia members who "had better equipment than our State Police had." In longer comments that were later edited out of the Times' story, McAuliffe said that up to 80 percent of the rally attendees were carrying semi-automatic weapons. "You saw the militia walking down the street, you would have thought they were an army," he said.
Virginia police have come under criticism for failing to quell violence at the rally, which left one counterprotester dead and more than 30 injured.
I wonder if it has something to do with stuff like this?
Yeah, how dare they contradict TMac.
I didn’t realize McAuliffe was blaming the “white nationalists “ (whatever that may be) for stashing the weapons. This is a common Black Bloc, Antifa, Occupy, etc. Technique. They hide weapons or hide the parts of weapons along the route, and then pick them up and assemble them on the way to the riot. (When I say weapons, I mean the home-made things such as aerosol cans to be used as flame throwers, IEDs, machetes, etc.)
If anybody was caching weapons, it would have been the leftists. However, since they were without a permit and not even supposed to be on that street, that particular route wouldn’t have had any weapons. Also, they had permits for two other parks, but they never gathered there or intended to do so, so they didn’t bother to stash their weapons there. They had their baseball bats and aerosol cans right out in the open.
Perhaps you could explain your point rather than showing us a notice from photobucket that you need to make changes to your account?
no.......... they couldn’t have done this on purpose.
This couldn’t have been a setup. (S)
Democrats lie.
A Democrat goal is to turn Conservative Americans into the equivalent of Pre-WorldWarII Jews. Nazis lied about Jews...made up stories to make them look bad.
Folks in the Jim Crow South lied about blacks - lied about young men like Emmett Till. Painted them with the same brush... Our day’s thugs - the white liberal elites - are doing the same.
Forced apologies where fellow citizens must grovel before ‘in thug’ groups is one of the early ‘tells’. So is fawning members of the press ‘looking the other way’ for the ‘in thugs’...
So yeah McAuliffe’s gonna get away with his lies and someone down the food chain will be forced to ‘apologize’. The press will cover for McAuliffe...
Maybe Governor Terry “Cache” McAuliffe got the info from a Russian insider/leaker/lobbyist.
Obviously the Virginia State police are racists (/sarcasm).
Why aren’t these guys held accountable for their lies?
This Governor’s scheming shenanigans got 2 cops dead ( helicopter crew engaged in as yet unreleased operations )
The cops are not going to cover his lies
Unless threatened
Yeah, what's the story...the REAL truth.
It sounds French-Scottish....Cache Mac Auliffe. Lol.
We just dont know why it was there but there were reports from witnesses about what it seemed to be doing
Probably all scrubbed by now
Anyone stupid enough to be caught up in this is being set up. Many are criminals or crazy. Easily manipulated, used and disposable.
Photobucket has screwed up everyone’s “free” accounts.
bkmk
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