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State Police Helo crash deaths now linked to Charlottesville White Nationalists
2017-08-13
[The Hill] Three people were killed and 19 others were injured during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turning a day of violent demonstrations into a tragedy that rocked the nation.

One of the three died after a car mowed down a group of protesters. The two other victims were Virginia State Police Department officers who were in a helicopter that crashed nearby.

The University of Virginia Health System said 20 people were brought to the hospital Saturday afternoon after a car plowed into a group of people protesting near a popular pedestrian mall in the college town. One died and the rest were being assessed and treated for injuries.

The helicopter crash happened a few miles outside of Charlottesville and it was not immediately clear what caused the crash.

Virginia State Police said Saturday that the helicopter crashed in a wooded area near a home around 5 p.m. The crash is being investigated and it is unclear if it was tied to the protests.
Posted by:Besoeker

#26  We are not sure why the helicopter crashed, but we are going to go ahead and put the number killed by the protests at three.

Unless someone was purposefully trying to take down the copter, it is a tragic work accident.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-08-13 18:56  

#25  I'll wait for the NTSB report, if you don't mind.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2017-08-13 18:41  

#24  As long as it gone.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-13 17:07  

#23  Not Earnest, g(r)om. A very drunk speech-to-texter with a limited repertoire.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-08-13 16:47  

#22  OK, kids, here is a story from my Berkeley riot daze in the late 1960s. Well the riots were on and the aroma of tear gas was wafting through the air. The police had a Bell 47G2 helicopter flying through the area, monitoring all the entropy activities going on. Some kids were flying kites at Northside Park. The pilot landed in the area, and admonished the kids to not fly kites, as the helicopter could get things tangled in the tail rotor, causing a crash. So the kids brought in their kites. However, word got around and there were scores of kites flying a few hours later like barrage balloons. The helicopters were required to fly at a much higher altitude, diminishing their effectiveness.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-08-13 16:19  

#21  Earnest?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-13 16:15  

#20  
Posted by: Black Bart Cromotch7868   2017-08-13 16:06  

#19  What #12 Frank said--pithy and insightful.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-13 14:46  

#18  So you had a bunch of so-called white supremacists spoiling for a fight. The police underestimated what they would need for resources to handle this event. How much intelligence did they perform on the participants? They got a permit. The police did not separate the groups. And who did not look into the other side willing to join the fight? Who backed them?

The news hounds just talk about the riot. They never go into background or causes. Welcome to the propaganda state. Got an agenda? Go for it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-08-13 12:44  

#17  p.s. Anybody want to bet that it won't turn out that the driver hit the gas after being mobbed by antifa crowd?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-13 12:38  

#16  A little too elegant, John.
Perhaps 'professional agitators'.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-08-13 12:30  

#15  Agent provocateurs at work?
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-13 12:18  

#14  Any similarities of the symbology are purely coincidental.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-13 11:37  

#13  So, a 'White Nationalist' is what exactly?

Anyone who fails to subscribe to communism.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-13 11:01  

#12  So, they were all Nazi-Lites? I bet a majority were just pissed at the history (good and bad) revisionism and the constant belittling and spitting on the race that did a lot of the work in Western Civilizatuion. You know, the one with toilet paper, microwaves, freedom of speech and all that shit
Posted by: Frank G on the Road   2017-08-13 11:01  

#11  Claims I read suggested the arrested person had a Facebook page that had all sorts of White Nationalist garbage on it. Assuming they got the right Facebook page (the article had a lot of weasel words).

Sometimes its easier to tell motive than others.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-08-13 10:59  

#10  White Nationalist = Nazi Lite
Posted by: Bobby   2017-08-13 10:54  

#9  #8You have to be impressed at how quickly the authorities were able to determine the driver's motives. Usually, it takes a lot longer.
Posted by: Matt


Should've shouted "Allahu Akhbar". They'd still be conjecturing in 2020
Posted by: Frank G on the Road   2017-08-13 10:51  

#8  You have to be impressed at how quickly the authorities were able to determine the driver's motives. Usually, it takes a lot longer.
Posted by: Matt   2017-08-13 10:36  

#7  RIP officers.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-13 10:23  

#6  ...you sort of have to wonder just exactly what constitutes a 'White Nationalist'.

It is anyone who disagrees with or speaks out against the tyranny of the Dems/left and happens to be white. If you happen not to be white and a conservative, and speak out against the tyranny of the left, you get painted with a brush similar to "White Nationalism." You might be called an "Uncle Tom" or other some other choice term of endearment (sarc). In other words, it is a phrase that the left uses to demonize opponents. "Nationalist" has become similar to sexist, misogynist, homophobe, xenophobe, Islamophobe, racist and all the other names used for name-calling and to shut people up and cut-off the debate of ideas.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-13 10:22  

#5  So, a 'White Nationalist' is what exactly?

Judaism <----> Christianity

Zionism <----> White Nationalism
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-13 10:19  

#4  At a time when expensive Ivy League and state colleges offer for-credit courses on Ending Whiteness, White Privilege, etc you sort of have to wonder just exactly what constitutes a 'White Nationalist'. Keep in mind the people doing the defining are the same ones telling heterosexual men they MUST like, admire and sexually pursue transgender individuals. So, a 'White Nationalist' is what exactly?
Posted by: Cesrae   2017-08-13 09:52  

#3  So this had nothing to do with the people who wanted to tear down statues in the first place or showed up for the counter-protest? And BLM had nothing to do with the cop deaths that resulted during the years when "O" fanned the BLM flames with his rhetoric? I guess Dem Governor McAuliffe wouldn't think that. Jackasses.

Now, Trump is being criticized for not doing enough although he did strongly condemn the Charlottesville riot. Let McAuliffe, a member of the smartest people in the world criminal cabal, handle it. Let's see how good he is at dealing with such things.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-13 09:03  

#2  The crash is being investigated and it is unclear if it was tied to the protests.

But it was listed as such in your article title and on TeeVee by your feckless 'all convicts should vote' Dem Governor McAuliffe.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-13 08:26  

#1  Notice how 'white nationalism' is conflated with 'white segregationists'. Just as the same perps conflate illegal and legal immigration, and natural climate change with man made climate change. Not to mention universities are already engaged in black segregation in dorms and programs. Make them define 'white nationalism' to see what they're really saying instead of accepting an amorphous catch all.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-08-13 08:18  

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