Torch-wielding protesters chanting 'Russia is our friend' rally at Confederate statue in Virginia

[workinclasszero]

Torch-wielding protesters chanting 'Russia is our friend' rally at Confederate statue in Virginia
BY Nicole Hensley NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, May 14, 2017, 5:41 AM

Torch-wielding white supremacists rallied around a Robert E. Lee statue slated for removal and chanted “Russia is our friend" in Virginia Saturday night.

The group surrounding the Confederate statue in Charlottesville’s Lee Park extinguished their torches and left as cops swarmed the street just before 9:30 p.m., according to the Daily Progress newspaper.

It was not immediately clear which group was behind the unsettling stunt but extremist Richard Spencer claimed that he was among the torchbearers after protesting at a similar rally in Jackson Park hours earlier.

The 39-year-old right-wing radical tweeted a photo of himself brandishing a torch during the rally. Charlottesville is home to Spencer’s alma mater, the University of Virginia.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/torch-wielding-protesters-rally-confederate-statue-virginia-article-1.3164235

[Squinch]

1. But one article I read on it says that the "rally" only lasted 10 minutes at which time it

had to be broken up due to fighting among the protesters.

They can't even get along with each other.

[underpants]

2. Literally "useful idiots"

This is alarming. It's only down the road and HOUR from here.

[dhill926]

3. what the hell....

chanting "Russia is our friend..." Shit just gets weirder and weirder...

[workinclasszero]

4. Fascists choose ideology over country

Republicans are traitors.

[William769]

5. OMFG

I have no words.