The black man beaten at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville now faces a felony charge

VulcanRaven wrote: »

And some of you disagreed with me when I said blacks should have stayed out of that beef. Now what?

Broddie wrote: »

Shizlansky wrote: »

VulcanRaven wrote: »

And some of you disagreed with me when I said blacks should have stayed out of that beef. Now what?

You do know their “beef” is with us right?

He means their civil war. Stop standing by white liberals. Let them fight their own battles. It's their karma. Nobody else's.

AggieLean. wrote: »

Hopefully, he beats it. Wrong as hell he's even being charged to begin with.

My black ass wouldn't have been out there or anywhere where I knew them antifa folks was gone be. They out there getting ? riled up to fight with them, y'all all get arrested, and even though they think they're helping out, their privilege (because even though they might be liberal, they're still white) gets them a lesser charge or free of any trouble, while the ? getting the book thrown at him. Nawl, ? that.

Neo-Confederate Leader Behind Arrest Warrant For Black Man Beaten In C’Ville

One of the most enduring and shocking moments from the white nationalist march on Charlottesville this summer was the parking garage beating of counter-protester DeAndre Harris by a crowd of khaki-clad white nationalists, who swarmed around the 20-year-old with flagpoles and shields.

One of the hate group leaders involved in that clash successfully persuaded a local magistrate on Monday to issue an arrest warrant for Harris on a felony charge of “unlawful wounding,” complicating an ongoing police investigation into the men who attacked the counter-protester.

Both Harris’ lawyer and the League of the South, a neo-Confederate organization, say Harold Ray Crews, the group’s North Carolina chairman, pursued the warrant. In order to do so, he took advantage of a quirk in the judicial system, according to a Charlottesville police detective and Harris’ lawyer.

After trying to file a compliant with police, Crews apparently went to the magistrate’s office, which requires only a police report based on the complainant’s testimony and the determination of probable cause to issue a warrant. In a statement, S. Lee Merritt, Harris’ attorney, Merritt attributed the charge to a “successful campaign” by the League of the South to “manipulate the Charlottesville judiciary and further victimize Mr. Harris.” He denied that his client was involved in causing the head injuries Crews sustained.

Charlottesville police detectives and Merritt have expressed surprise that local authorities issued the warrant at all.

“This is the first time I’ve seen this situation happen,” Merritt told TPM.

In a Wednesday phone call, Merritt told TPM that Crews and his fellow League of the South members have been discussing pressing charges against Harris on their podcast, “Southern Nationalist Radio,” “for quite some time,” but that he did not expect “a magistrate to sort of decide to independently run with it.”

Charlottesville Det. Sgt. Jake Via, who is supervising the parking garage case, told the Washington Post that he, too, was “not expecting this.”

“We were expecting to do our own investigation into the man’s allegations,” Via told the newspaper.

Crews, a 48-year-old North Carolina real estate lawyer who describes himself as a “Southern Nationalist” on his Twitter bio, did not respond to TPM’s email and phone calls requesting comment. But the League of the South posted several items celebrating the pending arrest of the “young ? male” involved with “harassing their members” in the parking garage.

Crews has deep ties to the League, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, has reported that he runs their Facebook, website and a related YouTube channel that’s posted under his own name.

His allies have celebrated the arrest warrant as a victory for their side, with white nationalist blogger Hunter Wallace calling Harris’ charge the end of “another race hoax” and prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer cheering “the end of the Deandre Haris [sic] myth.”

Both Merritt, Harris’ attorney, and the white nationalists say they believe the copious video evidence of the incident will vindicate them. Video shows the man that Merritt says identifies as Crews trying to stab a counter-protester with the pole of a Confederate flag, and Harris swinging a flashlight in response. Merritt said in a statement that the flashlight “did not make significant contact” with Crews before Harris was kicked to the ground by six white nationalists who beat him with wooden sticks and a shield, leaving him with a spinal injury, cranial lacerations and several fractures. Photos show Harris bleeding profusely from his head.

According to Merritt’s statement, the injury Crews sustained to his head came from “a completely separate subsequent incident” involving a clash “between at least four white males,” which was also appears to have been captured in multiple photographs.

Three of the white nationalists involved in the parking garage beating have since been arrested.

As the Post reported, Commonwealth’s Attorney Warner “Dave” Chapman, a Democrat, will decide whether to prosecute the case once the warrant is served against Harris.

Merritt told TPM he is working with Charlottesville police to determine the terms of Harris’ surrender, but would not release the date out of “concerns about his safety and people knowing he’s in town.”

“He had to leave Charlottesville because he no longer felt safe in the city,” Merritt said of Harris, who was a resident of the city at the time of the August rally. “He couldn’t continue his job as an assistant school teacher because of anxiety that he gets around large crowds. He was doing a pretty good job recovering. But there’s still this angst of him being charged after being the recipient of this brutal attack. It’s set him back emotionally.”

Broddie wrote: »

blackrain wrote: »

Broddie wrote: »

Shizlansky wrote: »

So we suppose to let white ppl fight white supremacy?

The KKK/Nazis our there saying ? ? and we suppose to sit it out?

You ? amaze me.

You seeing what happens when black folks stick their nose in this ? ? Ya still don't get it. Even for fighting for the right cause they will systematically defeat you cause the system is in their favor.

No chess player will play the game like that. White liberals are the ones instigating this ? let them burn alone. Not like this is brand new ? in this country. Most sensible poc know unless they're ? with you directly mind your own ? business.

These ? are not even 4% of the population. Quit giving them shine at the expense of your freedom or physical well being. Unless you truly must.

If folks only stood up when they were directly affected then ? would never get done

Keep believing that. Only obligation blacks have in this country is to themselves. The focus should be in rebuilding their communities and their people's position in this country. Especially as it changes.

Whites are having a civil war. You can either take advantage of filling up the lanes they're vacating now that they're distracted amongst themselves.

Or you can side with either side far left or far right and helped them fight for the further continuation of systematic white supremacy in this country. It's on you. I personally choose not to side with any form of white supremacy. I spend that time figuring out how to help my own instead cause nobody else is.

I fight back when attacked but I'm not gonna be caping for outsiders just cause they sing a sweet song. They chose to instigate that battle so they need to own it.

Blacks and every other non-white should not be wasting time with people who would use them to further their agendas. Then pay them dust when it's their time to come up with their end of the bargain. That "solidarity" ? is one sided as ? .