Beat vic ma: Goons stole son’s peace
THE GRIEVING mother of the counter-protester killed during a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., has no interest in speaking with President Trump.
Susan Bro had warm words for the President on Monday after he condemned the hate groups behind the weekend rally where Heather Heyer was killed by an alleged white supremacist who rammed his car into a crowd of demonstrators.
Later, she caught up with Trump’s performance at a press conference Tuesday, when he said “both sides” were to blame for Saturday’s violence.
“Think before you speak,” a choked-up Bro told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on Friday.
“I’m not talking to the President now, I’m sorry,” Bro said. “After what he said about my child.”
Trump did not criticize Heyer during his remarkable back-andforth with the media at Trump Tower, but said “I think there is blame on both sides” for the violence.
“You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent,” Trump said, adding he thought there were also “very fine people” on each side.
Bro had shut her phone off after Heyer’s funeral Wednesday, and told “GMA” she didn’t see Trump’s comments until she watched the news Thursday night.
“I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters like Ms. Heyer with the K.K.K. and the white supremacists,” Bro said.
“You can’t wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying ‘I’m sorry,’ ” she said. “I don’t forgive you for that.”
Since Heyer’s death, Bro said she’s received multiple threats and has read rumors that her slain 32-year-old daughter was part of various terror groups.
Bro said the only thing her paralegal daughter was part of was “a group of human beings who cared to protest.”
Her comments Friday countered the kind words she had for the President on Monday, after he read a statement blasting neo-Nazis and praised her daughter.
“Thank you, President Trump, for those words of comfort and for denouncing those who promote violence and hatred,” Bro said in a statement to NBC.
During his bizarre press conference Tuesday, Trump thanked Bro for the message and praised her daughter.
“In fact, the young woman — who I hear was a fantastic young woman — and it was on NBC, her mother wrote me and said through, I guess, Twitter, social media, the nicest things,” Trump said. “But her mother, on Twitter, thanked me for what I said.” THE DEANDRE Harris who left his Charlottesville home last weekend to protest racism is gone — and his mom wonders if the upbeat young man she raised will ever return.
While the 20-year-old Harris survived a beating by white supremacists, his mother now looks at Deandre and sees someone different: less trusting. More fearful. Very paranoid.
“They took something away from him that he is never going to get back,” mom Felicia Harris told the Daily News. “And that’s to feel comfortable wherever he goes.
“Deandre never had any fear about ever going anywhere or walking around. That personality that he has? Everybody loves Deandre . ... But now it’s like he’s so bottled up to where he does not want to speak or talk to people.”
Blood poured down Harris’ face last Saturday when his racist attackers, wielding metal flag poles, savagely beat him in a parking garage.
Racial epithets flew as the helpless, badly outnumbered Harris fought for his life.
Adding to his fears: Seven days after the beating, all of his attackers remain on on the loose. Charlottesville police, despite clear video of the beating, have yet to make a single arrest.
On a GoFundMe page to raise funds for Deandre, the victim noted, “No law enforcement stepped in to help me" — a sentiment echoed by others protesting against the white supremacists.
His attorney, Lee Merritt, says cops have “more than enough evidence” to issue an arrest warrant.
The attacks continue on social media, as Deandre’s phone fills with threats and messages of hate while he recovers from injuries that included a gash on his head, a broken wrist and a chipped tooth.
Felicia Harris told her son to ignore the hate appearing in his inbox — including a YouTube clip from a neo-Nazi promising to burn Charlottesville to the ground.
“I told him to stay off of social media because the hate messages will just keep coming back to you,” warned his mother. “He has to get his mind right ... the more he gets those messages, and the more he keeps seeing them coming into his inbox, it’s just going to keep surfacing.”