With smaller budgets and fewer personnel, several rural law-enforcement agencies have managed to protect both free speech and public safety when white supremacists come to town. While metropolitan Charlottesville erupted, these places kept the peace. On August 12, white supremacists, Southern nationalists and other groups under the “alt-right” banner fought […]
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On the first overcast Monday after rioting here, across from Charlottesville District Court, a man gripes to a reporter about unwanted guests. He won’t share his name for fear his opinions might impact his job (which he also doesn’t disclose) — so his description is important: he sports an average […]
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President Donald Trump took two days to condemn the various white supremacist groups who gathered for demonstrations in Charlottesville that resulted in death and injury. Trump’s initial response the Saturday of the rally and counter protests had been to lay blame “on many sides,” leading to an outcry before his […]
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Hours after white supremacists’ violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protestors killing one woman and leaving scores hospitalized, President Trump read a strategically vague, equivocal statement from his private golf club in New Jersey. He blamed “many sides” for the violence and […]
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Late into the night of Saturday, April 29, I was standing in front of the Holiday Inn Express in Pikeville, Kentucky smoking a cigarette and trying to get my head around what I had just experienced. I was taking a break from trying to crank out a piece more along […]
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On President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, a Saturday afternoon standoff in Pikeville, Kentucky between a coalition of white supremacist groups and anti-fascist counter protesters fell short of violence that had local officials on high alert in the days and hours leading up to the event. Hundreds from each […]
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