Title : "Recounting a day of rage, hate, violence and death/How a rally of white nationalists and supremacists at the University of Virginia turned into a 'tragic, tragic weekend.'"
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"Recounting a day of rage, hate, violence and death/How a rally of white nationalists and supremacists at the University of Virginia turned into a 'tragic, tragic weekend.'"
This is the kind of newspaper article I'm looking for, detailing what happened in Charlottesville, and I wish I felt more confidence that The Washington Post would tell it straight. Maybe this is straight, but how can I know? What trust has been shot to hell in the last few years of journalism! I'm still reading this, because it's the closest I've come to the kind of careful report I want.Excerpt:
When it was over, questions about how this could happen centered on three groups: a meticulously organized, well coordinated and heavily armed company of white nationalists; a fiercely resistant and determined group of counterprotesters prepared to stop the Saturday rally; and state and local authorities who seemed caught off guard by the boldness and persistence of both groups.See, right here, there's a problem: We're not told what words and noises came from the counterprotesters. We're not told they were silent, only that the "white nationalists" got very ugly fast.
By 8:45 p.m. Friday, a column of about 250 mostly young white males, many wearing khaki pants and white polo shirts, began to stretch across the shadowy Nameless Field... and converged on a statue of Jefferson....
There they met their enemy. A group of about 30 U-Va. students — students of color and white students — had locked arms around the base of the statue to face down the hundreds of torchbearers. The marchers circled the statue. Some made monkey noises at the black counterprotesters. Then they began chanting, “White lives matter!”
Within moments, there was chaos. Shoves. Punches. Both groups sprayed chemical irritants. Many marchers threw their torches toward the statue and the students.I have to assume the police deliberately absented themselves. Was it because they knew or expected the counterprotesters to be the enforcers? And who started the punching and shoving? The WaPo report is a model of hiding the human agency: chaos, shoves, and punches seem to be acting on their own.
Other than one university police officer, there was no sign of law enforcement along the march, and it was several minutes before police intervened.
I'm not copying everything. Please go to the link for more detail. Let's skip to mid-morning on Saturday:
By 10:30 a.m., there had been a few small skirmishes, but the fury was building, and it became obvious that a brawl would be stopped only if police stepped in. They did not....The counterprotesters has "sticks" but the "white nationalists" had "long wooden clubs"? Are these weapons basically the same? (I'm picturing baseball bats.) Why withhold the details about the weapons on one side of a rumble? For that matter, why is one side given a label that characterizes its ideology — "white nationalists" — but the other side is not?
A few minutes before 11 a.m., a swelling group of white nationalists carrying large shields and long wooden clubs approached the park on Market Street. About two dozen counterprotesters formed a line across the street, blocking their path. With a roar, the marchers charged through the line, swinging sticks, punching and spraying chemicals.
Counterprotesters fought back, also swinging sticks, punching and spraying chemicals.
One answer is: Because the "white nationalists" had a planned rally, with public details about its message, and the other side were people who gathered to oppose that message. But didn't that other side have to plan its response and use social media to stir up participation?
I mean, my response to the "white nationalists," with their free speech rights and their grasping at attention, would have been to withhold attention. Let them speak and go home. I'm sure many people in the area who loathed their message did just that. But the counterprotesters came out. They must have communicated a get-out-the-counterprotest message.
Other[ counterprotesters] threw balloons filled with paint or ink at the white nationalists. Everywhere, it seemed violence was exploding. The police did not move to break up the fights....That's a dreadful interchange — offered, it seems, to represent other things people were yelling at each other.
Within minutes of the dispersal order, the right-wing groups began leaving the park, still exchanging taunts and insults with counterprotesters as they made their way toward McIntire Park, a mile from downtown....
“Go the f--- home!” a black woman yelled at the passing group.
“Go the f--- back to Africa,” one yelled back. “F--- you, n-----!” many also screamed. “Dylann Roof was a hero!” another yelled....
At McIntire, rallygoers were informed that a state of emergency had been declared. The rally would not go forward. Cars and vans with license plates from all over the country began to arrive and pick up the marchers....I'm looking back at the WaPo headline. I still don't really know "how a rally... turned into a 'tragic, tragic weekend.'" I see contributions from the "three groups": "white nationalists... counterprotesters... and state and local authorities...." I don't really know that the white nationalist were "meticulously organized" and "well coordinated" or how the counterprotesters became "fiercely resistant and determined" (was it entirely unorganized and uncoordinated?), and I just don't believe that the state and local authorities were simply "caught off guard."
At 1:14 p.m., the Charlottesville city Twitter account tweeted: “CPD & VSP respond to 3-vehicle crash at Water & 4th Streets. Several pedestrians struck. Multiple injuries.”
For those at McIntire, far from the scene, there wasn’t an immediate connection between the rally and what was at that point being called a crash.
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