{"id":322824,"date":"2017-08-23T03:43:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T02:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blood-on-your-hands-protesters-blame-city-council-for-violence-in-charlottesville\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T03:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T02:43:40","slug":"blood-on-your-hands-protesters-blame-city-council-for-violence-in-charlottesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blood-on-your-hands-protesters-blame-city-council-for-violence-in-charlottesville\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlood On Your Hands\u201d: Protesters Blame City Council For Violence In Charlottesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-22\/blood-your-hands-protesters-blame-city-council-violence-charlottesville\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>August 22, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhy did you think you could walk in here and it would be business as usual?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was one of many harshly worded questions and insults lobbed at the Charlottesville Va. city council during a Monday night meeting that was beset by protesters angrily demanding an explanation for what they alleged was the city\u2019s botched response to Aug. 11 \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally. The rally, which revived a national conversation about the line between heritage and hate speech that continues to this day, devolved into violence as white nationalists, who had earlier marched through the University of Virginia\u2019s campus carrying torches, clashed with counterprotesters. The weekend ended in tragedy when one of the young men in attendance rammed his Dodge Charger into a crowd of counter protesters, killing a 32-year-old woman, and injuring dozens of others.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protesters in Charlottesville, VA call for the resignation of city leaders during the first city council meeting since the deadly violence. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VnbzDeTqrg\">pic.twitter.com\/VnbzDeTqrg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC World News Now (@abcWNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abcWNN\/status\/899941321380470784\">August 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the council meeting, protesters \u201cshouted down the mayor, \u201ctook over city council chambers,\u201d \u201cbroke out into furious chants of \u2018shame\u2019 and \u201cgave four hours of impassioned testimony.\u201d Their efforts resulted in a small victory:\u00a0<strong>The city authorized a third-party review of the city\u2019s planning and response to the rally<\/strong>, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/21\/us\/charlottesville-council-melee.html?mcubz=3\">the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user245717\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/19\/2017.08.22charlottesville.JPG\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user245717\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/19\/2017.08.22charlottesville_0.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was no shortage of drama:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\u201c\u2019I\u2019m outraged! said Tracy Saxon, 41.\u00a0<strong>\u201cI watched my people get beat and murdered. They let Nazis in here have freedom of speech, and they protect them? And we can\u2019t have freedom of speech?\u201d<\/strong><br \/><strong>At one point, two people stood on the dais and unfurled a banner with the words \u201cBlood on your hands!\u201d as council members and the mayor left the room.<\/strong>\u00a0The residents refused to cede control of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/blood-on-your-hands-protesters-blame-city-council-for-violence-in-charlottesville.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeAugust 22, 2017 \u201cWhy did you think you could walk in here and it would be business as usual?\u201d That was one of many harshly worded questions and insults lobbed at the Charlottesville Va. city council during a Monday night meeting that was beset by protesters angrily demanding an explanation for what they alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}