USA: Police inaction caught on video as white nationalist in Charlottesville fired on crowd


So stark was the police failure to intervene, many participants in the protest and counterprotests believe it was by design.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The New York Times
By Frances Robles | August 25, 2017

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — As demonstrators clashed near a downtown park here two weeks ago, a white nationalist protester in a bulletproof vest turned, pointed a pistol toward the crowd and fired a single shot at the ground, in the direction of a black man wielding an improvised torch.

To make his escape, a video recording shows, the armed protester strolled past a line of about a dozen state police troopers who were safely positioned about 10 feet away behind two metal barricades. None of them budged.

“We all heard it and ran — I know damn well they heard it,” said Rosia Parker, a community activist in Charlottesville. “They never moved.”
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