Va. city girds for alt-fight

THE CITY OF Charlottesville is looking to douse the return of torch-wielding hatemongers after a third and unannounced visit by white nationalist Richard Spencer and his followers.

Authorities in the Virginia college town said they’re forming a task force to see if they can change local and state policies to block future marches of hatred.

“It is unconscionable that Mr. Spencer (photo inset) and his allies would return to our city to intimidate and spread fear, especially after their morally reprehensible invasion of the city on Aug. 12,” city officials said in a statement outlining their plan.

The August “Unite the Right” event attracted hundreds of white supremacists from at least 35 states, according to the Anti-Defamation League. A counterprotester, Heather Heyer, 32, was killed there by a car driven by a neo-Nazi from Ohio.

News of the task force came about 24 hours after about 40 white nationalists gathered for 10 minutes at Emancipation Park, where the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stands. The monument has been shrouded by a black tarp since September.

The tiki-torch-carrying crowd then boarded a bus and slipped out of the city.

Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer wants the hate groups prohibited from gathering in the city.

“The so-called ‘alt-right’ believes intimidation and intolerance will stop us from our work. They could not be more wrong,” Signer said in a statement. A MAN who was stabbed in the heart astonishingly managed to walk into a Queens hospital on his own Monday night, cops said.

The 35-year-old victim was undergoing surgery after staggering into Elmhurst Hospital Center shortly after 10 p.m., according to cops. They said he was critically injured by a blade that pierced his heart and the wound was lifethreatening.

The man, whom police did not identify, said he was walking on Macnish St., near Elmhurst Ave. — just a few blocks from the hospital — when an unknown attacker knifed him.

Police were searching Tuesday for the assailant. early