NEW COVER STORY: The inside story of Charlottesville—and how the violence could have been avoided (via TerryMcAuliffe)
, McAuliffe describes the events of the morning of the Unite the Right rally and why he had to act quickly.
"I let them know we had the potential for violence, that while precious few of us were from there or ever lived there, that Charlottesville was our city that day," Colonel Steven Flaherty said later. toward the rally that morning. She told me she'd found a plastic baggie full of rocks and a white piece of paper warning of"Shocking crime facts" and signed by the Ku Klux Klan, closing,"Wake up, white America!" She stayed with the group as long as she could."I started crying during the thing," she told me.
Naturally, David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, was there. He grinned and beamed to well-wishers."This represents a turning point for the people of this country," Duke said that morning."We are determined to take our country back. We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump, and that's what we believed in. That's why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he's going to take our country back."The crowd loved it.
After dealing with Colonel Flaherty for three-and-a-half years, I knew what he was trying to tell me—things are about to blow. The Charlottesville police's plan, unfortunately, relied at least in part on the honor system and the hope that the neo-Nazis would do what they'd said they would. It didn't work out that way. No surprise.
The main issue on declaring a state of emergency was one of protocol. The default is always for local decision-making. Normally, the city would be the one to declare an unlawful assembly, and that was what Colonel Flaherty was expecting. He saw it as the call of Charlottesville police chief, Al Thomas. Brian Moran was going out of his mind trying to sort it all out.
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