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Originally Posted by New Era

Witnesses paint a much different picture of the events that went down in Charlottesville.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ttesville.html

Of course, these people didn't watch the events as closely as President Comacho. These were folks right in the middle of everything, so you must take their accounts with a grain of salt. They wouldn't have the same view from where BLOTUS was sitting.

For the people saying "let the police handle it", it's worth noting how the police are just not there.

At that point, more of the anarchists and antifa milling nearby saw the huge mob of the Nazis approach and stepped in. They were about 200-300 feet away from us and stepped between us (the clergy and faith leaders) and the Nazis. This enraged the Nazis, who indeed quickly responded violently. At this point, Sekou made a call that it was unsafe—it had gotten very violent very fast—and told us to disperse quickly.

While one obviously can’t objectively say what a kind of alternate reality or “sliding doors”–type situation would have been, one can hypothesize or theorize. Based on what was happening all around, the looks on their faces, the sheer number of them, and the weapons they were wielding, my hypothesis or theory is that had the antifa not stepped in, those of us standing on the steps would definitely have been injured, very likely gravely so. On Democracy Now, Cornel West, who was also in the line with us, said that he felt that the antifa saved his life. I didn’t roll my eyes at that statement or see it as an exaggeration—I saw it as a very reasonable hypothesis based on the facts we had.