{"id":81699,"date":"2017-08-22T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81699"},"modified":"2017-08-22T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:36:32","slug":"confederate-statues-will-be-shrouded-in-charlotteville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81699","title":{"rendered":"Confederate statues will be shrouded in Charlotteville"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three arrested as councilors vote to shroud Confederate statues at meeting overwhelmed by anger<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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Three Charlottesville residents are facing misdemeanor charges after Monday evening\u2019s raucous City Council meeting that was taken over by those demanding answers for the city\u2019s handling of the Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Donna Gasapo Gray, 43, was charged with disorderly conduct. Two others, Mark Heisey, 30, and Sara Michel Tansey, 29,\u00a0 were chared with obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The council agreed to continue the meeting following the arrests, but cancelled the planned agenda. The meeting then turned into a town-hall style meeting that ended after 1 a.m. Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously early Tuesday morning to cover the city\u2019s statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas \u201cStonewall\u201d Jackson in black fabric, which will represent the city’s mourning of Heather Heyer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Heyer was killed earlier this month in what many have described as white nationalist terrorism. At least 30 others were injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some time after the Aug. 12 white nationalist Unite the Right rally was shut down by authorities due to violence between ralliers and counter-protesters, a 20-year-old man from Ohio who came to attend the rally allegedly drove his car into a crowd of Downtown Mall pedestrians on Fourth Street.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The council voted on other resolutions after a tumultuous council meeting Monday evening. Activists and residents took over the meeting to express their anger and frustration about how the city and police officials handled the rally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition to seeking the removal of the city\u2019s Lee statue, councilors voted to direct the Board of Architectural Review to make a decision on removing the nearby Jackson statue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was a total takeover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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People in the crowd said three were arrested. They called for Mayor Mike Signer\u2019s removal. His eyes welled as people told the City Council how they experienced the vicious car attack that slammed into a crowd of counter-protesters crossing the Downtown Mall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A woman said her daughter was supposed to start her fourth year at the University of Virginia this week. She won\u2019t be attending the first day of class because of her injuries, the mother said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another man said he\u2019s suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said he can still see the bodies that went flying after the car struck the crowd several hours after the Unite the Right rally was shut down because of rampant street-fighting outside Emancipation Park, the location where white nationalists and white supremacists gathered on Aug. 12 for their Unite the Right rally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Within 30 minutes of starting its meeting, the entire City Council, the city attorney, the city manager and council clerk all retreated into a backroom. Two women stood on top of the dais with a banner: \u201cBlood on your hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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