UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA OFFICIALS SAY EXISTING RULES COULD HAVE FOILED RACIST TIKI TORCH PARADE

A working group composed of officials at the University of Virginia has concluded that campus police and Charlottesville police could have prevented white nationalist protesters from fomenting unrest and violence on campus by bothering to enforce existing laws.
The ‘Unite the Right’ rally and the violence related to it occurred last month. Hundreds of white nationalists and white supremacists wielding lighted tiki torches marched through the University of Virginia campus. They shouted ‘White lives matter’ and ‘Jews will not replace us.’ They also fought with counter-protesters.
The new assessment by the University of Virginia working group indicates that at least two laws exist which law enforcement officials could have used to stem the increasingly violent demonstrations.
An existing policy on the books at taxpayer-funded school prohibits ‘open burn and open flame operations’ on campus without approval by either the fire department or health and safety inspectors. This policy ‘includes but is not limited to candles and tiki torches,’ the working group report says.

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on SEPTEMBER 14, 2017.