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So it seems that the Chief of Police in Charlottesville is going to resign.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Alfred Thomas, the police chief in Charlottesville, Virginia, has announced his retirement on Monday after 27 years of law enforcement service. The decision comes just weeks after the release of a critical review of his department's reaction to a violent white nationalist rally over the summer.
[...] Earlier this month, former U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy released findings from a monthslong investigation into law enforcement's response to the violent rally in August. The report criticized Thomas' "slow-footed response" and found that police failed on multiple fronts, leading to "deep distrust of government" in the local community. It also found a lack of preparation and coordination between state and city police and a passive response by officers to the chaos.
State police and Charlottesville police were unable to communicate by radio the day of the rally because they were on different channels, the report said, and commanders "instructed their officers not to intervene in all but the most serious physical confrontations."
All I can say, is that it was a good thing the antifa were there to do the job of the police, defending people from violent attack.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 24 2017, @08:34PM (1 child)
Propaganda is propaganda, you dumbass. Of course we recognize Aristarchus submissions when he signs them as AC. When you are AC you tone down the shit, hoping not to be recognized. Go ahead, deny it.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday December 24 2017, @09:33PM
No! I WILL NOT deny it! But of course, how can you tell, if I do? What about the gweg_ submissions? Or the Covert on-the-down-low submission j-mo makes, as AC, about topics you would never imagine he had any interest in. Except he does. And, but the way, the fact that the antifa stopped cold an attack by the Nazis on a group of Religious non-violent counter-protestors is not propaganda. Just a fact. Multiple eyewitness accounts are easily available. And now we know it was only necessary because the Charlottesville police allowed right-wing violence as a deliberate tactic.