A good example. The local politicians told the police to stand down and let antifa attack them, leading to one of the nazis to escalate to a deadly weapon, ie a car.
None of that would have happened, if the cops had done their job and prevented the riot in the first place.
Are you happy with the way that went? I'm not. And I assume you are not either.
It is good to find common ground, is it not?
Am I wrong about that? Is your only complaint that the nazis fought back?
What kind of "peaceful demonstrators" come prepared with weapons and taped hands, for violence? How many peaceful demonstrators tend to get arrested for initiating attacks on other demonstrators? So if you want to be accurate, you would acknowledge that their purpose wasn't a peaceful demonstration - it was provocation and inciting violence and participating in it and the sad result was that they killed an innocent person.
I don't pretend that Antifa wasn't there to incite violence - that is their methodology and they have repeatedly done so. I just don't get why people make excuses for the rightwing extremists in this event - they were certainly not just defending themselves.
On the failure of the police? I do agree with you.
Thank you for admitting that the police did not do their job, though, imo the fault lies with the politicians that ordered then to stand down.
And I don't know that the white supremacists were not defending themselves. AND not all of the, indeed, I doubt even HALF of the statue demonstrators were white supremacists.
When the local politicians make it clear that they are working with the brownshirts (Antifa) to attack their political enemies, to suppress political speech they don't like though violence, in a supposedly democracy,
AND on top of THAT, they are supported by one of the major political parties and the majority of the media?
THAT is the story as far as I am concerned.