Firenze Sage: Cops feared Antifa,not Nazis in Charlottesville riots

ANTIFA fears:  A new bombshell independent report.  The report  highlights the failures of the Charlottesville Police Department during the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in August 2017.  The report  claims that law enforcement on the scene feared direct attacks from far-left extremists  — from ANTIFA –  and that this may have even led to their refusal to intervene in the chaotic riot.

The report was drafted by a former U.S. attorney hired by the city of Charlottesville, Va., Timothy Heapy, through his law firm.

According to the report, the authors “spoke to multiple officers at all levels who expressed concern that normal arrest procedures would put officers in harmâ€s way.

In the week before August 12, the Virginia Fusion Center shared credible threats that members of Antifa would bring soda cans filled with cement and might attack police. Then, on the morning of August 12, rumors circulated among CPD that Antifa might attack officers with fentanyl.

The apparent threat of violence against police from Antifa reportedly led officers to avoid direct confrontation in the ensuing melee.

For example, “Lieutenant Brian Oâ€Donnell, commander of Zone 3 (1stStreet) instructed his officers to avoid engaging attendees over ‘every little thing.’”

Furthermore, “Sergeant Robert Haney described the instructions he received as ‘do not interrupt mutual combat†unless someone is seriously injured,” the report alleges.

The report noted Lieutenant McKean “told [the authors of the report] that he was ‘not sending guys out there and getting them hurt.â€

The report concludes that the police strategy was therefore to “rather than engage the crowd and prevent fights, the CPD plan was to declare the event  unlawful and disperse the crowd.

The Antifa movement is a conglomeration of autonomous, self-styled anti-fascist groups in the United States.^[2][3][4] The principal feature of antifa groups is their opposition to fascism through the use of direct action.^[5] They engage in militant protest tactics, which has included property damage and physical violence.^[2][6][7][8] They tend to be anti-government and anti-capitalist^[9] and they are predominantly far-left and militant left,^[10][5] which includes anarchists, communists and socialists.^{[11][12][13][14]} Their stated focus is on fighting far-right and white supremacist ideologies directly, rather than on encouraging pro-left policy.^[5]

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Firenze Sage comments:    Don’t expect anyone to apologize for calling Trump nuts for saying it was mutual combat.

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