Shooter at Charlottesville rally arrested

When you come to a rally with a handgun, you did not come in peace. As we can see. Who was this?

Who's "you"?

Who's the guy with the torch?

Corey Long was already firing his flamethrower and the protester with the gun responded.

A care worker who fought off white supremacist attackers in Charlottesville with an improvised flame thrower said he had set out for a peaceful protest against “Nazis who took over my town”.

Corey Long had joined the hundreds of demonstrators in the Virginia city who turned out to heckle at radicals including Ku Klux Klan members who were marching in an ultra right-wing rally.

But the 23-year-old said the scene quickly turned violent when one of the thousands of extremists who had taken to the streets fired a gun next to his feet - while police nearby failed to react.

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This fool shooting a handgun in a crowd of people. According to this report he is a white supremacist and his name is Baltimore resident Richard Wilson Preston the Imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Why am I not surprised.

Corey Long is a big fat liar.

You must admit firing a gun in a crowd it's not using your head, an innocent person might have been struck by that bullet, What a Sad commentary. Another mindless gun owner with a gun.

The shooter violated a cardinal rule of gun safety, never point a gun at something unless you intend to shoot it.

That fool leader of the Ku Klux Klan did not come to that rally in peace.

That may be or may not be. Corey Long also came armed, and used his weapon first.

Don't you believe your own eyes? Don't you see what is happening? Don't you see this identified Baltimore resident Richard Wilson Preston who is the Imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in action, firing a hand gun in a crowd of people?

That may or not is your way to smooth over this egregious, outrageous, appalling, horrendous act by Richard Wilson Preston who is the Imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and you got the nerve to try and dismiss and justify this awful action as this "That may be or may not be." WOW!!!

Steve, that happened and that is a FACT.

You said anyone who comes to a rally does not come in peace. I disagree. And I'm saying you don't know why Richard Preston was armed.

And why do you keep repeating that half-truth about his position in the KKK?

Court records list his address in the 5800 block of Cedonia Ave. in the Northeast Baltimore neighborhood of Cedmont. He was identified in news reports as imperial wizard of a Ku Klux Klan chapter in Maryland.

In 2013, a man named Richard Preston who identified himself as imperial wizard of the Baltimore-area Confederate White Knights told The Baltimore Sun that the organization was not racist at its origins, saying that it lost its way during the civil rights era of the 1960s.

"There was a lot of conflict,” he said. “It gave the Klan a very bad name."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...

Is Richard Wilson Preston this Richard Preston?

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KKK rally planned for Antietam Battlefield
By Linda Wheeler September 3, 2013
A Rosedale, Md., Ku Klux Klan group has announced that it will hold a rally at Antietam National Battlefield on Sept. 7 to protest U.S. immigration policies and President Obama’s administration. Nine members are expected to attend, some wearing robes, according to news stories.

The group received a permit last week to hold its rally near the Mumma Farm, a historic site visible from the visitors’ center. The park implemented free-speech permits in 2006, the last time a KKK group demonstrated at the battlefield.

The group’s leader, Imperial Wizard Richard Preston, told reporters he plans to stage a similar event at Gettysburg National Military Park but he has not yet submitted an application.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/house...

The group obtained a permit to demonstrate at the battlefield, which is operated as a national park, the second time a KKK group had done so. A now-defunct outfit known as the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was the first in 2006.

Sgt. Paul Brooks, a spokesman for the U.S. Park Police, said any group regardless of their views is welcome to hold a demonstration as long as they apply for a permit and follow the rules.

"That's the First Amendment, and that's the beauty of living in America," he said.

The police carefully marked out areas with orange fences for the KKK group, sympathizers, media and counter-demonstrators. Spectators were asked to watch from the back, about 125 yards from the hooded Klansmen.

The Klan members were driven into the park in a U.S. Department of the Interior minibus flanked by four motorcycle outriders. Mounted police officers stood nearby during the rally.

Brooks said the police were not expecting any problems but that they wanted to be prepared.

But the hooded speaker questioned the need for all the security and said the KKK's reputation for violence was ill-deserved.

Richard Preston, the leader of the Baltimore area group who uses the title Imperial Wizard, explained in an interview Friday that the organization was not racist at its origins, saying that it lost its way during the civil rights era of the 1960s.

"There was a lot of conflict ... it gave the Klan a very bad name," he said.

But David Harty, 61, the lone person occupying the designated area for counter-demonstrators, said he found that hard to swallow.

"The KKK is not racist? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," he said. Harty, who held a sign reading "KKK go away," said he used to come to the battlefield with a Scout troop to light candles to remember the soldiers who fell there on Sept. 17, 1862.

He described the Klan's use of the place for its rally as a "desecration."

The Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg in Washington County, was the bloodiest single-day engagement of the Civil War, with 23,000 casualties. The battle was not a clear win for either side, but ended the first Confederate invasion of the Union and led President Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the rebel states.

The KKK was founded after the Civil War to oppose Reconstruction, a set of policies designed to cement the rights of freed slaves.

While Preston said that "slavery should have never happened" he added that "things for the United States started to go wrong with Lincoln. … He was the first liberal president."

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-09-0...

Didn't you ask the question, "who was this?"

When you come to a rally with a handgun, you did not come in peace. As we can see. Who was this?

Have you watched the answer Ron?

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