No room in US for neo-nazism: Ivanka Trump

Mark Lance, a philosophy professor at Georgetown University and an organizer of some of Sunday’s planned the counter-demonstrations, said Kessler’s call for “white civil rights” was meant to obscure the beliefs of those that rallied in Charlottesville.

Bro’s visit this weekend to the place where her daughter, Heather Heyer, 32, died is emblematic of her grit and the objective she found after the violent episode that shocked Charlottesville and the nation. “Get up, get busy, don’t feel sorry for yourself”.

Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Peter Cvjetanovic, right, appears with neo-Nazis, alt-right supporters and white nationalists holding tiki torches and chanting at counterprotesters in Virginia on August 11, 2017.

The mother of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was hit by a vehicle and killed last year, has also spoken publicly leading up to the anniversary.

“He’s not, in my view, a racist by any stretch of the imagination”, said Senator Lindsey Graham, (R), who was critical of Trump during the 2016 campaign but has become a staunch ally. Some leading figures in the US white nationalist movement have said they won’t attend or have encouraged supporters to stay away. It’s been a year now, and let’s focus on why she was there. “This year, I’m afraid of the police”, Woolfork fumed. “And I’m calling b.s. on that”. Soon after though, he said that while there were bad people in the white supremacist group, “you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides”.

Trump’s remarks also led to a series of business leaders announcing they would exit a council providing assistance to the administration. Carlson, 22, said she feared for her life when she and a group of her friends were surrounded by the phalanx of young white men at the statue. “It has to be a heart movement”.

Charlottesville’s intense security plan for the anniversary weekend has been greeted with mixed reactions from residents.

On Wednesday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, D, declared a state of emergency, allowing officials to marshal resources to prepare for the potential impact of events in and around Charlottesville and northern Virginia.

Charlottesville this year denied organizer Jason Kessler a permit for a rally there, but he received final approval Thursday from the National Park Service for up to 400 participants at Lafayette Square for an event dubbed “Unite the Right 2”. University of Virginia students will march on their Charlottesville campus Saturday night, Debbie tells Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday. Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, is in the background.

Democrat Mark Warner, a United States senator from Virginia, insisted Trump cleared the way for white nationalists to spread “hate and bigotry”. “But you don’t need to be absolutely paranoid”.

The city says law enforcement at the access points are conducting consensual checks for objects that were banned as a security measure during the weekend anniversary of last summer’s violence.

On Saturday, Trump wrote on Twitter that the “riots” in Charlottesville “resulted in senseless death and division”. Those who were paying attention knew it was coming. He then backtracked on his comments in a statement that condemned the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists. “I will never stop fighting for ALL Americans!” Bro’s desk at the Heather Heyer Foundation sports one of Heyer’s favorite sayings: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention”.