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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. At least one person was arrested.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency, and police dressed in riot gear ordered people at the rally in Charlottesville to disperse after chaotic clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters.

Small bands of protesters who showed up to express their opposition to the rally were seen marching around the city peacefully by midafternoon, chanting and waving flags. Helicopters circled overhead. As of 12:30 p.m., a city spokeswoman said a single arrest was reported. Emergency medical personnel have responded to eight injuries related to the event.

Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler had called for what he termed a "pro-white" rally to protest the city of Charlottesville's decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a downtown park.

Colleen Cook, 26, stood on a curb shouting at the rally attendees to go home.

Cook, a teacher who attended the University of Virginia, said she sent her son, who is black, out of town for the weekend.

"This isn't how he should have to grow up," she said.

Cliff Erickson leaned against a fence and took in the scene. He said he thinks removing the statue amounts to erasing history and said the "counterprotesters are crazier than the alt-right."

"Both sides are hoping for a confrontation," he said.

It's the latest confrontation in Charlottesville since the city about 100 miles outside of Washington, D.C., voted earlier this year to remove a statue of Lee.

In May, a torch-wielding group that included prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer gathered around the statue for a nighttime protest, and in July, about 50 members of a North Carolina-based KKK group traveled there for a rally, where they were met by hundreds of counter-protesters.

Kessler said this week that the rally is partly about the removal of Confederate symbols but also about free speech and "advocating for white people."

"This is about an anti-white climate within the Western world and the need for white people to have advocacy like other groups do," he said in an interview.

Between rally attendees and counter-protesters, authorities were expecting as many as 6,000 people, Charlottesville police said this week.

Among those expected to attend are Confederate heritage groups, KKK members, militia groups and "alt-right" activists, who generally espouse a mix of racism, white nationalism and populism.

Both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which track extremist groups, said the event has the potential to be the largest of its kind in at least a decade.

Officials have been preparing for the rally for months. Virginia State Police will be assisting local authorities, and a spokesman said the Virginia National Guard "will closely monitor the situation and will be able to rapidly respond and provide additional assistance if needed."

Police instituted road closures around downtown, and many businesses in the popular open-air shopping mall opted to close for the day.

Both local hospitals said they had taken precautions to prepare for an influx of patients and had extra staff on call.

There were also fights Friday night, when hundreds of white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus carrying torches.

A university spokesman said one person was arrested and several people were injured.

Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer said he was disgusted that the white nationalists had come to his town and blamed President Donald Trump for inflaming racial prejudices with his campaign last year.

"I'm not going to make any bones about it. I place the blame for a lot of what you're seeing in American today right at the doorstep of the White House and the people around the president."

Charlottesville, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is a liberal-leaning city that's home to the flagship University of Virginia and Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.

The statue's removal is part of a broader city effort to change the way Charlottesville's history of race is told in public spaces. The city has also renamed Lee Park, where the statue stands, and Jackson Park, named for Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. They're now called Emancipation Park and Justice Park, respectively.

For now, the Lee statue remains. A group called the Monument Fund filed a lawsuit arguing that removing the statue would violate a state law governing war memorials. A judge has agreed to a temporary injunction that blocks the city from removing the statue for six months.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Lee Park and Jackson Park renamed Emancipation Park and Justice Park? God, never going to be enough nigger ass kissing and appeasement from the moonbatty white apologists. I hope all hell breaks loose and good white patriots finally get enough of this bullshit and stop this insanity.

pafret Loc: Northeast

They are rewriting history. The civil war was not fought over emancipation and it had nothing to do with Justice. They should have named it States Rights park and Freedom from Federal Oppression Park. It would have been historically accurate.

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

buffalo, Your language is that of racism and stupidity, and dqplayes your sympathy quite clearly. I suggest that you go back to high school, ( if you ever attended ) and learn about the US Constitution and the damage that racism has done to this country, and the world!

Randy131 Loc: Florida

I don't agree with the altright, KKK, and white racists, but I do agree with their right to rally or protest peacefully, but the liberals, progressives, and Democrats won't allow that to occur, denying them their constitutional rights, which the exact same thing has been happening at Berkley in California, and many places all across the USA, where the left is denying people their rights just because those people don't agree with what the left wants the agenda to be, or what is to be espoused by those people in the exercise of their free speech rights.

It's now a proven fact that since the 2016 primary elections and general elections for the Presidency, the liberals, progressives, and Democrats have instigated much violence and many riots that they call protests, but where they are the ones destroying both public and private property, physically harming anyone that disagrees with their agenda, and bars other people's rights of free speech and religious exercise in public speaking engagements. This is all originating from one political side, and is being perpetrated on the other political side, and is just the opposite as the Democrats and liberal biased mainstream media would have you to believe.

Fascism has always come from the far left followers of socialism, communism, and Marxism, and is now rearing it's ugly head here in the USA, and is coming from the members of the Democratic Party, as those who are perpetrating it are falsely blaming and accusing the people they are pepetrating it against, as that mayor in this article blames it on President Trump and his campaign, when in every one of President Trump's campaign rallies, he denounced any violence perpetrated against anybody for any reason, and the only violence that occured at any of his rallies, were by leftist goons paid to do so by the DNC in order to interrupt President Trump's rallies.

There never were enough people at any of Hillary Clinton's campaign rallies to instigate any violence or riots, because the conservatives, Christians, and Republicans stayed far away from those evil sites.

Ironic how that mayor in this article never mentioned all the ways Obama divided the American people, one of them being by racism. But dividing the American people was the only way that Obama could win or get his agenda pass the US Congress illegally, by usurping the US Congress' powers through the issuance of 'Executive Orders & Executive Decrees', unilaterally enforcing unlegislated laws on the American people.

teabag09

It's funny that Richmond Va. has many statues of Confederates, it was the Capital of the Confederacy, in Monument Park. There was a call to do away with the statues but cooler heads prevailed. Their solution was to erect statues, paid for by citizens, to other people such as Arthur Ashe (Champion tennis player) and others to include other famous Southern women and men. Placated most everyone. Mike

buffalo Loc: Texas

And removing historical monuments, renaming parks and streets, and rewriting history ios going to do what? Fu(k you, I have a BA in history. This crap is not about history. It is about the niggers and their white ass kissing apparatchiks acting like butt hurt little brats. And those of your moonbatty ilk that think we should continue to try to appease their fake feelings are just being used like the idiots you are. Your the stupid one that think this shit is relevant. You damn right I am racist! EVERYONE IS to a certain extent. I am proud of my Southern and Texas heritage. My great grandfather joined the First Texas Heavy Artillery Unit, Company K in 1861 at the ripe old age of 12. The purging of Confederate monuments will not change events of the past , only foster more anger and resentment.

teabag09

Right you are Buffalo. This is all about changing America and what she stands for. Been in the works for along time but came to a head with our first black President. Notice this is only happening in the South which has been predominantly Republican for years. Just like with Ca. outsiders move in and try to systematically change it to what they fled. As far as 79 goes, I've already told him my thoughts of him and what he can do. Mike

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

Lonewolf

Sounds just like trump nothing but EO,S not 1 piece of legislation in over 200 days weak



uote=Randy131]I don't agree with the altright, KKK, and white racists, but I do agree with their right to rally or protest peacefully, but the liberals, progressives, and Democrats won't allow that to occur, denying them their constitutional rights, which the exact same thing has been happening at Berkley in California, and many places all across the USA, where the left is denying people their rights just because those people don't agree with what the left wants the agenda to be, or what is to be espoused by those people in the exercise of their free speech rights.

It's now a proven fact that since the 2016 primary elections and general elections for the Presidency, the liberals, progressives, and Democrats have instigated much violence and many riots that they call protests, but where they are the ones destroying both public and private property, physically harming anyone that disagrees with their agenda, and bars other people's rights of free speech and religious exercise in public speaking engagements. This is all originating from one political side, and is being perpetrated on the other political side, and is just the opposite as the Democrats and liberal biased mainstream media would have you to believe.

Fascism has always come from the far left followers of socialism, communism, and Marxism, and is now rearing it's ugly head here in the USA, and is coming from the members of the Democratic Party, as those who are perpetrating it are falsely blaming and accusing the people they are pepetrating it against, as that mayor in this article blames it on President Trump and his campaign, when in every one of President Trump's campaign rallies, he denounced any violence perpetrated against anybody for any reason, and the only violence that occured at any of his rallies, were by leftist goons paid to do so by the DNC in order to interrupt President Trump's rallies.

There never were enough people at any of Hillary Clinton's campaign rallies to instigate any violence or riots, because the conservatives, Christians, and Republicans stayed far away from those evil sites.

Ironic how that mayor in this article never mentioned all the ways Obama divided the American people, one of them being by racism. But dividing the American people was the only way that Obama could win or get his agenda pass the US Congress illegally, by usurping the US Congress' powers through the issuance of 'Executive Orders & Executive Decrees', unilaterally enforcing unlegislated laws on the American people.[/quote]

Lonewolf

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That's just what trump is doing not 1 piece of legislation in over 200 days weak


uote=Randy131]I don't agree with the altright, KKK, and white racists, but I do agree with their right to rally or protest peacefully, but the liberals, progressives, and Democrats won't allow that to occur, denying them their constitutional rights, which the exact same thing has been happening at Berkley in California, and many places all across the USA, where the left is denying people their rights just because those people don't agree with what the left wants the agenda to be, or what is to be espoused by those people in the exercise of their free speech rights.

It's now a proven fact that since the 2016 primary elections and general elections for the Presidency, the liberals, progressives, and Democrats have instigated much violence and many riots that they call protests, but where they are the ones destroying both public and private property, physically harming anyone that disagrees with their agenda, and bars other people's rights of free speech and religious exercise in public speaking engagements. This is all originating from one political side, and is being perpetrated on the other political side, and is just the opposite as the Democrats and liberal biased mainstream media would have you to believe.

Fascism has always come from the far left followers of socialism, communism, and Marxism, and is now rearing it's ugly head here in the USA, and is coming from the members of the Democratic Party, as those who are perpetrating it are falsely blaming and accusing the people they are pepetrating it against, as that mayor in this article blames it on President Trump and his campaign, when in every one of President Trump's campaign rallies, he denounced any violence perpetrated against anybody for any reason, and the only violence that occured at any of his rallies, were by leftist goons paid to do so by the DNC in order to interrupt President Trump's rallies.

There never were enough people at any of Hillary Clinton's campaign rallies to instigate any violence or riots, because the conservatives, Christians, and Republicans stayed far away from those evil sites.

Ironic how that mayor in this article never mentioned all the ways Obama divided the American people, one of them being by racism. But dividing the American people was the only way that Obama could win or get his agenda pass the US Congress illegally, by usurping the US Congress' powers through the issuance of 'Executive Orders & Executive Decrees', unilaterally enforcing unlegislated laws on the American people.[/quote]

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

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Perhaps you should do a little research. You will then discover them.

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

--------looks like obama is still working & his stupid policies !!!!! wacko's are getting more violent !!!!!

buffalo Loc: Texas

Does this no reek of the censorship of Orwell's "1984"?

As Jarrett Stepman penned: When does this war on American history stop? If every figure must be held up to the constantly evolving values of the times, we will eventually find that we’ve purged all of the good along with the bad elements of what made this country what it is. We may even find that tomorrow, we are the ones being erased from history.

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

---WOW that is a scary thought & we could not move back to like i am part french &could not go there to live either