Fascist fiend flees beating in Virginia
RUN, FASCIST, RUN!
The white nationalist who organized the violent hate rally in Charlottesville, Va., was chased away from a news conference Sunday as furious protesters drowned out his remarks, punched him and tackled him into a bush.
Jason Kessler spearheaded the “Unite the Right” demonstration that ended in deadly violence Saturday when a neo-Nazi slammed a Dodge Challenger into a group of people, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Kessler had sought to address the chaos at the 2 p.m. news conference in front of Charlottesville City Hall — but protesters barely allowed him to speak.
“The hate that you hear around you? That is the antiwhite hate that fueled what happened yesterday. What happened yesterday was the result of Charlottesville police officers refusing to do their job,” he said.
A crowd surrounded him as he tried to continue speaking.
“Shame!” they chanted. “Shame!”
One man repeatedly hollered, “Indict for murder now!” blaming Kessler for the car attack that killed Heyer.
A man punched Kessler as the crowd closed in, prompting the alt-right organizer to make a run for it.
A woman tackled Kessler into a bush.
State troopers helped him up and quickly guided him away from the mob, handing him off to a Charlottesville police officer.
“Murderer,” protesters shouted! “Shame!”
“Her name was Heather, Jason. Her blood is on your hands . . . . What do you have to say for yourself?” one man asked Kessler as he ran.
Robert Litzenberger, 47, was arrested for spitting on Kessler during the pandemonium, according to The Daily Progress, a newspaper in Charlottesville.
As he tried to make a run for it, the white supremacist was protected by the same police force he blamed for suppressing free speech and not adequately protecting alt-right adherents protesting plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park in Charlottesville.
Many of the marchers had professed their admiration for President Trump, who did not directly denounce their worldview.
“The media is using this thing as a witch hunt to attack the alt right and to attack Trump. They’re calling the rally a neo-Nazi rally. It was a rally in support of the (Lee) monument,” Kessler said in a livestream after being chased off.
In a statement, Kessler said he’d worked with Charlottesville police for months on the protest at the town’s Emancipation Park, which was formerly named Lee Park.
But cops didn’t separate the white nationalists from counterprotesters when things got ugly, Kessler said.
Before Saturday’s protest, Kessler was a white supremacist who had made a name for himself by challenging local elected officials.
On Sunday, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe sent a message to Kessler and his ilk during a visit to two Charlottesville churches, delivering fiery speeches and mourning the deaths of the two state troopers — Lt. Jay Cullen and pilot Berke Bates — who were on his security detail.
“They used to wear hoods because they were embarrassed — they don’t wear hoods anymore!” McAuliffe said at First Baptist Church. “I’m calling upon every elected official to the highest level — call it for what it is! It is hatred, it is bigotry.”