Kiwi helps catch rogue driver at rally
A former New Zealand professional rugby player has helped US police catch the driver who ploughed into a crowd killing a person and injuring at least 34 others as white nationalists clashed with counter protesters in Virginia.
Chris Mahony, an Aucklandborn adviser for the World Bank in Washington DC, said he noticed a grey sports car suspiciously stopped a small distance away from a group of people protesting the white supremacists in Charlottesville.
‘‘I thought that was a bit strange,’’ Mahony, 36, told CNN.
‘‘Of course moments later we heard a car going incredibly fast down the road and saw it plough into the crowd.’’
Video shot by bystanders showed the car accelerating and smashing into the crowd and another vehicle and then rapidly reversing in an attempt to escape.
Mahony, who played rugby for Auckland in the Air New
crystal-clear when it comes to white supremacy and what they were witnessing in Charlottesville. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, whose daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is Trump’s press secretary, tweeted: ‘‘’White supremacy’ crap is worst kind of racism-it’s EVIL and perversion of God’s truth to ever think our Creator values some above others.’’ Zealand Cup and for Oxford University, said he sprinted after the car to take photos to identify it and also alert police.
He saw a police officer and told him: ‘‘That car just ploughed into a whole lot of people’’.
The police officer immediately radioed the information to other officers and the driver was arrested.
‘‘He said, ‘We are on it. Quickly take me to where this happened’,’’ Mahony said. - AAP
Senator Orrin Hatch, Republicanutah, tweeted: ‘‘We should call evil by its name. My brother didn’t give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home.’’
Two members of a state patrol who were helping law enforcement were killed when their helicopter crashed near Charlottesville . - Washington Post