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White Supremacists Marched Last Night & This Morning in Charlottesville, Virginia, State of Emergency Declared

On August 11th, 2017, a month after a Ku Klux Klan rally here ended due to police doing their job and disassembling the hatred filed rally, hundreds of US white supremacists rallied at the University of Virginia. Seen outside the once home Thomas Jefferson, holding lit torches while chanting “White Lives Matter,” “You will not replace us,” and many more ignorant and rail slurs and comments.

Protest organizer Jason Kessler, who has previously accused the town of “anti-white hatred,” described the event as an “incredible moment for white people who’ve had it up to here and aren’t going to take it anymore.” WWBT reported. The group left the university’s grounds when police arrived and declared the gathering an unlawful assembly.

Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer released a statement referring to Friday’s rally as a “cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance march down the lawns of the architect of our Bill of Rights.”

“Everyone has a right under the First Amendment to express their opinion peaceably, so here’s mine: not only as the Mayor of Charlottesville, but as a UVA faculty member and alumnus, I am beyond disgusted by this unsanctioned and despicable display of visual intimidation on a college campus,” he added.

Thisoccured the night before a scheduled “Unite the Right” rally, full of white nationalists and right-wing protesters was going to take place today at noon (August 12th, 2017). It was declared an unlawful assembly. There has already been violence erupting at the white supremacist rally as seen below.

Racism never left America. It remained as a violent, systemic evil, and has recently become even more overt. 2017, 2007, 1997, 1987… https://t.co/c7KkFrMXh1

— The King Center (@TheKingCenter) August 12, 2017

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency “to aid state response to violence.” According to CNN, protesters have been arrested at the site of Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The unspecified number of arrests began shortly after police made a declaration of unlawful assembly at Emancipation Park, the state police said on Twitter.