Martyr’s ma slams Donald
The mother of the woman killed at a white-power rally in Charlottesville, Va., is refusing to speak to President Trump because she says he equated her daughter and other protesters with the KKK.
“I hadn’t really watched the news until last night, and I’m not talking to the president now, after what he said,” Susan Bro, the mother of victim Heather Heyer, told ABC’s “Good Morning America’’ on Friday.
“It’s not that I saw somebody else’s tweets about him. I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters . . . with the KKK and the white supremacists,” Bro said.
“You can’t wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying, ‘I’m sorry.’ I’m not forgiving for that,” she said.
Heyer, 32, was mowed down last Saturday by a driver identified as Nazi sympathizer James Alex Fields Jr. while she was pro- testing against white nationalists in Virginia.
Trump has come under sharp criticism for blaming “both sides” — including what he called the “alt-left” — for the deadly violence.
“I wasn’t there that day, but I will tell you that I’m pretty sure [Fields] is the only person that ran people down with a car, so that level of violence didn’t take place on both sides — that did not happen,” Bro said.
Asked whether she had a message for Trump, Bro said, “Think before you speak.”
Bro said her daughter, a paralegal, was at the rally in her hometown as “part of a group of human beings who cared to protest.”
“I’m honestly a little embarrassed to say that part of the reason Heather got so much attention is because she’s white and she stood up for black people,” Bro said.
“That should be an everyday thing — that should be a norm,” she said.