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Found this one pic on Daily Mail, but no other references in any news. Hmmm....Did this happen?
Found it... I wonder why this hasn't made more news. Look at all the inclusion.
State Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, held a black megaphone in one hand and balanced an assault-style rifle with the other. On Saturday afternoon, she spoke to a group of about 250 proponents of Second Amendment rights with her back to the Virginia Capitol.
Those who attended were largely armed, some with handguns, others with assault-style rifles. And they represented numerous factions, including right-wing extremist groups, a gun club, Black Lives Matter supporters and white supremacists. Police monitored nearby, mostly from a distance.
“I’m sick and tired of people saying that we are racist,” said Chase, who in February announced she’s running to be the state’s next governor. “Because we are not racist. … I’m all for peaceful protest.”
Organizer Mike Dunn, 19, focused on unifying everyone under their agreed support for the right to bear arms.
“I don’t care about your color. I don’t care about your beliefs. I don’t care about your politics,” he said with a bullhorn at the beginning of the event. “The only thing that protects your right to vote is this right here.” Dunn then tapped the hand gun holstered to his right hip.
The right-wing extremists in the crowd, called Boogaloos, cheered him. Boogaloos are known for wearing Hawaiian shirts, carrying rifles and advocating for a second civil war.
Later, a speaker asked if there were any racists in the group, posing it as a rhetorical question. But a handful of white men raised their hands in Nazi-like salutes. One of them wore on his black T-shirt a logo for the Rise Above Movement, a white supremacist organization.
While many of the activists were white men, there were Black Lives Matter supporters present, too. A Black woman who identified herself only as Queen said that at the end of the day, she is OK attending a rally alongside white supremacists. She’d rather focus on what they have in common.
“You have your differences, you have your opinions, you have whatever you feel,” she said. “Deal with that outside this movement. This movement is for one thing only.”
https://www.richmond.com/news/local...cle_45991a55-ae0e-501d-8920-f0139e7ca73b.html
Worth reading more...
Found it... I wonder why this hasn't made more news. Look at all the inclusion.
State Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, held a black megaphone in one hand and balanced an assault-style rifle with the other. On Saturday afternoon, she spoke to a group of about 250 proponents of Second Amendment rights with her back to the Virginia Capitol.
Those who attended were largely armed, some with handguns, others with assault-style rifles. And they represented numerous factions, including right-wing extremist groups, a gun club, Black Lives Matter supporters and white supremacists. Police monitored nearby, mostly from a distance.
“I’m sick and tired of people saying that we are racist,” said Chase, who in February announced she’s running to be the state’s next governor. “Because we are not racist. … I’m all for peaceful protest.”
Organizer Mike Dunn, 19, focused on unifying everyone under their agreed support for the right to bear arms.
“I don’t care about your color. I don’t care about your beliefs. I don’t care about your politics,” he said with a bullhorn at the beginning of the event. “The only thing that protects your right to vote is this right here.” Dunn then tapped the hand gun holstered to his right hip.
The right-wing extremists in the crowd, called Boogaloos, cheered him. Boogaloos are known for wearing Hawaiian shirts, carrying rifles and advocating for a second civil war.
Later, a speaker asked if there were any racists in the group, posing it as a rhetorical question. But a handful of white men raised their hands in Nazi-like salutes. One of them wore on his black T-shirt a logo for the Rise Above Movement, a white supremacist organization.
While many of the activists were white men, there were Black Lives Matter supporters present, too. A Black woman who identified herself only as Queen said that at the end of the day, she is OK attending a rally alongside white supremacists. She’d rather focus on what they have in common.
“You have your differences, you have your opinions, you have whatever you feel,” she said. “Deal with that outside this movement. This movement is for one thing only.”
https://www.richmond.com/news/local...cle_45991a55-ae0e-501d-8920-f0139e7ca73b.html
Worth reading more...
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