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8-13-17

 

Pictured marching with white supremacists moments before attack: Murder suspect, 20, accused of plowing his car into protesters at anti- fascist rally in Virginia, killing one and injuring 19

A 20-year-old Ohio man was charged with murder on Saturday after being accused of plowing his vehicle into a crowd of anti-fascists at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one woman and injuring 19 others, which caused the FBI to open a civil rights investigation. 

James Alex Fields Jr, of Maumee, Ohio, is being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. He was charged with second-degree murder. 

Shortly after Fields was charged, the FBI and federal prosecutors announced a civil rights investigation, following Texas Sen Ted Cruz’s call for the Justice Department to launch a ‘domestic terrorism’ probe into the deadly crash. 

The FBI’s Richmond field office, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia said they have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.

Video of the Dodge Challenger, which is registered to Fields, showed the driver accelerating into the crowd throwing bodies into the air as people scream before reversing at high speed.

The incident killed a 32-year-old woman, whose identity has not been released by authorities pending her family’s notification. Fields was apprehended and arrested a few blocks away from the bloody scene.

According to the jail’s superintendent, Martin Kumer, Fields was also booked on suspicion of malicious wounding, failure to stop for an accident involving a death, and hit and run. Kumer said Fields is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

The deadly crash came after violent clashes erupted as hundreds of white supremacists including armed militias marched into Charlottesville sparking violent confrontations with counter-protesters. 

Police cleared the scene with tear gas but the violence continued. Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas said a total of 35 people had been treated for injuries, 14 of those were from individual engagements on the streets. 

Horrifying video from the scene of the attack showed the silver muscle car speeding towards a group of fleeing anti-fascist protesters.

Another clip showed the vehicle ramming into the crowd at high speed and victims crying out in pain as they desperately sought medical help.

Witnesses said the car was traveling up to 40mph when it hit and reversed before ramming into the crowd again and speeding off with someone’s shoe attached to its bumper. 

James Alex Fields Jr (far left with glasses), of Maumee, Ohio, was arrested on Saturday after he ‘intentionally drove his vehicle into a crowd of anti-fascists at white nationalist rally, killing one woman and injuring 19 others’ in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photos of Fields at the march showed him marching with racist right-wing group Vanguard America 

 

James Alex Fields Jr (left and right), of Maumee, Ohio, was arrested on Saturday after he ‘intentionally drove his vehicle into a crowd of anti-fascists at white nationalist rally, killing one woman and injuring 19 others’ in Charlottesville, Virginia

Fields (pictured next to the Challenger) was apprehended and is currently in police custody. He was arrested a few blocks away from the bloody scene

The Dodge Challenger (pictured), which is registered to Fields, plowed into counter protesters, killing one woman and hospitalizing 19 others, as violence erupted at a rally where thousands of white nationalists gathered for an alt-right event in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. Police said a total of 35 people were treated for injuries 

Witnesses said the car was traveling up to 40 miles an hour when it hit and reversed before ramming into the crowd again and speeding off with someone’s shoe attached to its bumper

Fields is being held without bail at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail

A counter protester had allegedly thrown a rock at the car, causing the driver to swivel around and accelerate into people and two cars in its way, before driving away from the scene

Rescue personnel help an injured woman after a car ran into a large group of counter protesters. There were several hundred people marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them

Rescue personnel help an injured man after the car drove into a large group of protesters after the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville

 

Local police reported there were multiple injures and three vehicles were involved in the crash. Pictured: The two vehicles that were rammed into by a Dodge Challenger

Photos that recently emerged showed Fields marching with a racist, right-wing group known as Vanguard America. 

The white supremacist group opposes multiculturalism and believes America is an exclusively white nation.

Vanguard America has released a statement claiming that Fields was not an official member. 

It said: ‘The driver of the vehicle that hit counter protesters today was, in no way, a member of Vanguard America. All our members had been safely evacuated by the time of the incident. The shields seen do not denote membership, nor does the white shirt. The shields were freely handed out to anyone in attendance, All our members are safe and accounted for, with no arrests or charges.’ 

Virginia Gov Terry McAuliffe strongly condemned all of the so-called ‘patriotic’ white nationalists during a press conference Saturday evening.

‘Go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth,’ McAuliffe proclaimed. ‘You are not patriots. You came here today to hurt people and that is not patriotic,’ McAuliffe added. 

President Donald Trump admonished the day’s tragic events, saying in a press conference: ‘We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, violence, on many sides… The hate and division must stop, and must stop right now.’

But Trump’s failed attempt to condemn the act as terrorism was met with harsh criticism.

Republican strategist Ana Navarro commented on Trump’s statement and said: ‘This is not “many sides”. It’s White Supremacist Terrorism. The President of the United States does not have the spine to say so. Shameful.’ 

Other Republican leaders like Florida Sen Marco Rubio called out the president for not describing the events in Charlottesville for what they were, ‘a terror attack by #whitesupremacists’.

Cruz immediately called for the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute the individual responsible for the ‘terrorist’ act.

Late Saturday night, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said racial bigotry and hatred ‘cannot be tolerated’.

Trump took a break from his time in Bedminister to tweet about the violence, saying: ’We have to respect each other, ideally we have to love each other.’  

He tweeted that ‘we ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for.’ He then wrote ‘There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!’

The White House was silent for hours about the clashes except for a solitary tweet from First Lady Melania Trump. The president has received previous criticism for being slow to condemn acts of hate done in his name.

And though the White House may have been slow to condemn the hateful acts, Gov McAuliffe gave a powerful speech in which he said all of the so-called ‘patriotic’ white nationalists are not wanted in the United States.

‘My message is clear we are stronger than you. You will not succeed,’ he said. ‘There is no place for you here and there is no place for you in America.’ 

McAuliffe also said he spoke to the president on Saturday following the horrific acts of violence in Virginia. 

‘I told the president that there has got to be a movement in this country to bring us together,’ he said. 

McAuliffe said he told the president that he’s willing to ‘work with him to stop the hate speech and the bigotry in this country’. 

Source: Daily Mail

 

Driver in Deadly Charlottesville Crash Arrested | Controversial: Organizer Of Charlottesville Rally Speaks Out, Civil War Next? (Videos) click here



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    • The Watcher

      SEND TED CRUZ BACK TO CANADA!

      • THOTH

        Please don’t

    • Anonymous

      What no air bags? Psy-op. Remote controlled?

    • Man

      No psy op, No Flase flag, No actors? Oh wait is that because Trump is president?

      if you have a group consisting of the KKK, NEo-Nazi’s and white supremacist supporting the Robert Edward Lee Sculpture because it is part of Confederate Culture, you really need to think really hard why these groups are defending it.

      If you are an Alt-righter and you Have the KKK, Neo-Nazi’s and white supremacists defending you. I would really think hard what my political ideology is about. Because if you don’t support these groups. You should speak out or you are with them.

      Just what muslims do when Terrorists strike.

      If you don’t speak out, You are a part of this.

      • Jim

        MAN.
        YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT SLICK.
        THERE WERE NO KKK, WHITE SUPREMACY EXT.
        IT WAS AN ALT RIGHT MARCH TO DEFEND OUR SOUTHERN HISTORY FROM BEING DESTROYED BY THOSE COMMUNIST FUCKS..
        YOU’RE JUST ANOTHER STUPID USELESS EATER FOOL OF THE LEFTIST.

        • DK

          The political wing of the KKK was always the Democratic party, it is just that Black power became more useful n the 1960′s and considerably cheaper to buy votes, Democrats only had to reverse a few lines of their own legislation at a time to buy votes in the enfranchised slave class.

      • dennis48309

        Why should I? My girlfriend is a police officer and she has a target on her back daily thanks to black subhumans who don’t know how to act civilized or follow the law. I live in a predominately white suburban community because I actually enjoy not dealing with constant crime and welfare vampires.

    • zero

      It wasn’t a “white supremacy rally”, it was the ‘Unite The Right – Free Speech Rally’. There were some white supremacists there, but that wasn’t the theme of the event.

      You know, if any racial group stands up for their rights, it’s seen as a wonderful thing, unless it’s white people, then it’s evil. They’re not standing up for their rights, they want you all dead. What a sickening double standard. And I don’t even agree with that tribal, race consciousness bullshit, I believe in equality and I try to see people as individuals, not members of a group, but there is clearly a double standard when it comes to ethnicity based advocacy, and seeing people attacked in a million ways for simply expressing their opinion violates my sense of fairness.

      I don’t know whether the car attack was a false flag event or just some nutjob who lost his cool, but it was awfully convenient for the opponents of the alt-right movement. And the media could not be happier, they’re just lapping it up. I know this, if that guy isn’t an enemy of the alt-right, he’s the stupidest motherfucker on earth.

      • 2QIK4U

        They showed that one EX supremacist on Australian news and the ten minutes of the news piece was fine and then they showed him talking for about a minute but the sound went out and then the news presenter apologizes for technical difficulties. Lol Every Australian TV channel is CNN.

    • Boo

      Am I to understand any small group of malcontents that consists of maybe a thousand members if it’s lucky scattered across the country is now reason to for the might of the American government to come down on all people of that race, religion or culture now? If this is the case, you will have to wipe out the entire country of all it’s citizens then.

      …foolish inciting article. The person driving the car belongs behind bars. And if it is found he was conspiring to set this up ahead of time with other people they are complicit and should be charged accordingly. Simple as that.

      • 2QIK4U

        Only the ones with whites in it.

    • drew

      This reporter is absolutely disgusting. Can anyone say BIASED !! Ship his pathetic communist as*s to China.

    • I AM

      It looks like a faggot to ME…

    • 2QIK4U

      I see a Mexican in a green T-shirt and a ANTIFA member who voted for HITLERY CLINTON though.

      • Anonymous

        I see YOU.

    • Bass_Clef

      Riddle me this. Why is he wearing a white shirt in the arrest photo and the rally photo, but a striped shirt in the mugshot? Is it common practice (and excuse my ignorance of arrest proceedings: I’m not in the know) to re-dress the perp in a black and white Izod rather than the clothing he was arrested in (or substitute an orange jump-suit in size “husky” instead). Do they just keep a supply of extra clothes around for the detainees, or did he have to bring his own (unlike his many rally friends, he must have left his back pack in the murder mobile)? Also, his hair grew on the sides of his head between the rally and the mugshot. 1+1 = tinfoil, I know… and this isn’t a theory, just casual observation, and probably nothing.

      But, you might want to grab these images while they exist. Mandela has a way of helping us remember these types of events. :lol:

      • DK

        I checked out the released mugshot, you are right however it is normal practice to also hold up the suspects number and he is not wearing glasses which leads me to suspect they released his drivers license photograph.

        • Bass_Clef

          Agreed, as I thought that the person would be booked, photographed and fingerprinted prior to being asked to change their clothing for their stay at the inn. But the photo I have actually says “Albemarle County Jail” on the lower left-hand corner, with a copyright symbol preceding that. Also, in the meta tags, almost everything is blank except for “© Albemarle County Jail” under Origin/Credit in PS (which also shows up in Raw Data as:

          © Albemarle County Jail
          3

          )

    • THOTH

      From what I can tell R.E. Lee did not own slaves and was more concerned about the civil war stripping the individual states of their right to self governance, and that authority being centralized around an overbearing federal government. Check out his accurate foresight in the following statement:

      “I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.”  -Robert E. Lee in Correspondence with Lord Acton

      If I was an American, I’d be pissed about the removal of this statue. The civil war was not about slavery, so get over it…
      In his first inaugural address, Lincoln himself stated:

      “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so”  –

    • dennis48309

      All of these articles are biased. The driver was attacked with a baseball bat and made a sudden reaction to flee for his safety. I knew there was more to the story than some KKK nutcase deciding to drive his car willingly into a group of protesters.

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