Charlottesville nazi murder and Donald Trump

This video from the USA, 14 August 2017 says about itself:

Sherrilyn Ifill [of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund] joined Mitchell Reports to discuss the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend.

From the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in the USA today:

We will hold our leadership accountable after Charlottesville

After the violence in Charlottesville, we demand that our leadership actively works to combat white supremacy.

After white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, took the life of Heather Heyer, injured over 30 others, and contributed to the deaths of two state troopers, the President needed two days to summon the words to explicitly condemn racism.

His statement today is simply not enough. We need action.

Our nation’s leadership must not only forcefully condemn white supremacy, but work actively and affirmatively to stop it. Yet the President’s response to white supremacy has laid the foundation for the “Unite the Right” rally and violent confrontation. The Administration’s silence in the wake of recent incidences of white supremacist violence in Portland, Maryland and Minnesota has constituted an abdication of the kind of leadership we should expect from our President.

We also demand accountability from local law enforcement. In Ferguson, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, and other cities, we saw lawful, peaceful protests met with a militarized response. While we condemn the use of militarized force against protesters, we are concerned by the failure of police in Charlottesville to forcefully protect against white supremacist violence. We demand that law enforcement prosecute acts of violence and that the Charlottesville police provide a detailed accounting of the steps they took to protect clergy and other peaceful participants in this weekend’s events.

White supremacy is a part of our nation’s history, but we cannot allow it to poison our future. As LDF and other civil rights organizations continue to fight against the proliferation of racial hatred, our leaders must also do this work on the federal, state, and local level – and they must do it now.

With you in struggle,

Sherrilyn A. Ifill
President and Director-Counsel

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This video from the USA says about itself:

NYC Protests Against Trump & Denounces a President Who Condones White Supremacy

14 August 2017

Democracy Now! was there Sunday when New Yorkers gathered at Trump Tower in Manhattan to protest the president’s response to violent attacks by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. These are some of their voices.

This video from the USA says about itself:

Charlottesville Terrorist Identified

14 August 2017

The right-wing terrorist, who plowed his car into a group of counter protesters, has been identified. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

“(CNN)The suspect being held in a Virginia jail in connection with a deadly crash near a scheduled rally of white nationalists holds extreme values, one of his former teachers told CNN.

James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Maumee, Ohio, is accused of running his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of people, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring at least 19 others.

Fields made his initial court appearance Monday morning via a video link from jail. He remains in custody. The judge appointed an attorney for Fields and set August 25 as the date for the next hearing.

Fields is being held on suspicion of second-degree murder, malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident that resulted in death.

Also Monday, Fields was fired from his job as a security officer, according to a statement from his Ohio employer, Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. “His employment has been terminated,” the brief statement said.

Fields was using previously requested vacation time when the Charlottesville rally occurred, according to the statement.”

Read more here.