#charlottesville — Public Fediverse posts

This is always a tough time of year for me. I am happy that the city of Charlottesville closed Heather Heyer Way to through traffic running at killing speed through the memorial, at least for the day. I still hope that we can fix this for more than one day a year. #SafeStreets #cville #Charlottesville #DowntownMall https://www.12onyourside.com/2026/08/12/heather-heyer-way-closure-marks-nine-years-since-her-murder-white-supremacist-attack/

This is always a tough time of year for me. I am happy that the city of Charlottesville closed Heather Heyer Way to through traffic running at killing speed through the memorial, at least for the day. I still hope that we can fix this for more than one day a year. #SafeStreets #cville #Charlottesville #DowntownMall https://www.12onyourside.com/2026/08/12/heather-heyer-way-closure-marks-nine-years-since-her-murder-white-supremacist-attack/

This is always a tough time of year for me. I am happy that the city of Charlottesville closed Heather Heyer Way to through traffic running at killing speed through the memorial, at least for the day. I still hope that we can fix this for more than one day a year. #SafeStreets #cville #Charlottesville #DowntownMall https://www.12onyourside.com/2026/08/12/heather-heyer-way-closure-marks-nine-years-since-her-murder-white-supremacist-attack/

This is always a tough time of year for me. I am happy that the city of Charlottesville closed Heather Heyer Way to through traffic running at killing speed through the memorial, at least for the day. I still hope that we can fix this for more than one day a year. #SafeStreets #cville #Charlottesville #DowntownMall https://www.12onyourside.com/2026/08/12/heather-heyer-way-closure-marks-nine-years-since-her-murder-white-supremacist-attack/

This is always a tough time of year for me. I am happy that the city of Charlottesville closed Heather Heyer Way to through traffic running at killing speed through the memorial, at least for the day. I still hope that we can fix this for more than one day a year. #SafeStreets #cville #Charlottesville #DowntownMall https://www.12onyourside.com/2026/08/12/heather-heyer-way-closure-marks-nine-years-since-her-murder-white-supremacist-attack/

Flashback: Battle of Charlottesville was 9 years ago yesterday

Cville was brutally expensive, but since the Nazis were defeated in their attempt to hold a racist rally with speakers our forces won by definition as the defenders. The effect of this victory however expensive was profound. Up until that time Richard Spencer's suit and tie Nazi alt-right faction seemed to be growing stronger by the week. After that terrifying torch march, the brutal battle, and that DAESH/ISIS style terrorist attack they were forced to retreat in disarray. Spencer's own involvement in public Nazi politics was finished off for good the following spring, when his failed university speaking tour came to a humiliating end in another battle at the University of Michigan.

After Cville, the remnants of American Vanguard (which had included Heather Heyer's murderer James Fields) reorganized into Patriot Front. The collapse of Spencer's hard alt-right opened a vacuum into which the Proud Boys grew into another new and dangerous force. Many former Proud Boys are now ICE agents.

Now for my own experience: I had planned to deploy to Charlottesville but was strongly urged not to go because I was still way too hot from the Deploraball/stink "bomb" fracas of Jan 19 2017. A good friend who was already going shot video in my place and got footage I would not have been able to get as I would not have been able to get that close and still be able to spare one hand from fighting for the camera. About 80% of the video below is that footage.

The following day, still waiting for my friends to return, I was in the DC emergency march from the WWII Memorial to the Albert Pike statue. This foreshadowed the events of three years later when protesters tore it down.

The video below from Cville was delayed until Aug 14th because my cameraman was not back until the evening of the 13th because of the terrorist attack. I got the footage (about 80% of this finished edit) after the march from the WWII Memorial to the Pike Statue. While the footage was copying to my laptop, a drunk driver DROVE ONTO THE SIDEWALK right at us! I yelled "heads up!" but was sitting on my feet and could not move fast. I thought I was toast. The drunk driver went around us and lurched back into the street. That's when I realized he was only a drunk driver.

#Charlottesville

Flashback: Battle of Charlottesville was 9 years ago yesterday

Cville was brutally expensive, but since the Nazis were defeated in their attempt to hold a racist rally with speakers our forces won by definition as the defenders. The effect of this victory however expensive was profound. Up until that time Richard Spencer's suit and tie Nazi alt-right faction seemed to be growing stronger by the week. After that terrifying torch march, the brutal battle, and that DAESH/ISIS style terrorist attack they were forced to retreat in disarray. Spencer's own involvement in public Nazi politics was finished off for good the following spring, when his failed university speaking tour came to a humiliating end in another battle at the University of Michigan.

After Cville, the remnants of American Vanguard (which had included Heather Heyer's murderer James Fields) reorganized into Patriot Front. The collapse of Spencer's hard alt-right opened a vacuum into which the Proud Boys grew into another new and dangerous force. Many former Proud Boys are now ICE agents.

Now for my own experience: I had planned to deploy to Charlottesville but was strongly urged not to go because I was still way too hot from the Deploraball/stink "bomb" fracas of Jan 19 2017. A good friend who was already going shot video in my place and got footage I would not have been able to get as I would not have been able to get that close and still be able to spare one hand from fighting for the camera. About 80% of the video below is that footage.

The following day, still waiting for my friends to return, I was in the DC emergency march from the WWII Memorial to the Albert Pike statue. This foreshadowed the events of three years later when protesters tore it down.

The video below from Cville was delayed until Aug 14th because my cameraman was not back until the evening of the 13th because of the terrorist attack. I got the footage (about 80% of this finished edit) after the march from the WWII Memorial to the Pike Statue. While the footage was copying to my laptop, a drunk driver DROVE ONTO THE SIDEWALK right at us! I yelled "heads up!" but was sitting on my feet and could not move fast. I thought I was toast. The drunk driver went around us and lurched back into the street. That's when I realized he was only a drunk driver.

#Charlottesville

Flashback: Battle of Charlottesville was 9 years ago yesterday

Cville was brutally expensive, but since the Nazis were defeated in their attempt to hold a racist rally with speakers our forces won by definition as the defenders. The effect of this victory however expensive was profound. Up until that time Richard Spencer's suit and tie Nazi alt-right faction seemed to be growing stronger by the week. After that terrifying torch march, the brutal battle, and that DAESH/ISIS style terrorist attack they were forced to retreat in disarray. Spencer's own involvement in public Nazi politics was finished off for good the following spring, when his failed university speaking tour came to a humiliating end in another battle at the University of Michigan.

After Cville, the remnants of American Vanguard (which had included Heather Heyer's murderer James Fields) reorganized into Patriot Front. The collapse of Spencer's hard alt-right opened a vacuum into which the Proud Boys grew into another new and dangerous force. Many former Proud Boys are now ICE agents.

Now for my own experience: I had planned to deploy to Charlottesville but was strongly urged not to go because I was still way too hot from the Deploraball/stink "bomb" fracas of Jan 19 2017. A good friend who was already going shot video in my place and got footage I would not have been able to get as I would not have been able to get that close and still be able to spare one hand from fighting for the camera. About 80% of the video below is that footage.

The following day, still waiting for my friends to return, I was in the DC emergency march from the WWII Memorial to the Albert Pike statue. This foreshadowed the events of three years later when protesters tore it down.

The video below from Cville was delayed until Aug 14th because my cameraman was not back until the evening of the 13th because of the terrorist attack. I got the footage (about 80% of this finished edit) after the march from the WWII Memorial to the Pike Statue. While the footage was copying to my laptop, a drunk driver DROVE ONTO THE SIDEWALK right at us! I yelled "heads up!" but was sitting on my feet and could not move fast. I thought I was toast. The drunk driver went around us and lurched back into the street. That's when I realized he was only a drunk driver.

#Charlottesville

Flashback: Battle of Charlottesville was 9 years ago yesterday

Cville was brutally expensive, but since the Nazis were defeated in their attempt to hold a racist rally with speakers our forces won by definition as the defenders. The effect of this victory however expensive was profound. Up until that time Richard Spencer's suit and tie Nazi alt-right faction seemed to be growing stronger by the week. After that terrifying torch march, the brutal battle, and that DAESH/ISIS style terrorist attack they were forced to retreat in disarray. Spencer's own involvement in public Nazi politics was finished off for good the following spring, when his failed university speaking tour came to a humiliating end in another battle at the University of Michigan.

After Cville, the remnants of American Vanguard (which had included Heather Heyer's murderer James Fields) reorganized into Patriot Front. The collapse of Spencer's hard alt-right opened a vacuum into which the Proud Boys grew into another new and dangerous force. Many former Proud Boys are now ICE agents.

Now for my own experience: I had planned to deploy to Charlottesville but was strongly urged not to go because I was still way too hot from the Deploraball/stink "bomb" fracas of Jan 19 2017. A good friend who was already going shot video in my place and got footage I would not have been able to get as I would not have been able to get that close and still be able to spare one hand from fighting for the camera. About 80% of the video below is that footage.

The following day, still waiting for my friends to return, I was in the DC emergency march from the WWII Memorial to the Albert Pike statue. This foreshadowed the events of three years later when protesters tore it down.

The video below from Cville was delayed until Aug 14th because my cameraman was not back until the evening of the 13th because of the terrorist attack. I got the footage (about 80% of this finished edit) after the march from the WWII Memorial to the Pike Statue. While the footage was copying to my laptop, a drunk driver DROVE ONTO THE SIDEWALK right at us! I yelled "heads up!" but was sitting on my feet and could not move fast. I thought I was toast. The drunk driver went around us and lurched back into the street. That's when I realized he was only a drunk driver.

#Charlottesville

Flashback: Battle of Charlottesville was 9 years ago yesterday

Cville was brutally expensive, but since the Nazis were defeated in their attempt to hold a racist rally with speakers our forces won by definition as the defenders. The effect of this victory however expensive was profound. Up until that time Richard Spencer's suit and tie Nazi alt-right faction seemed to be growing stronger by the week. After that terrifying torch march, the brutal battle, and that DAESH/ISIS style terrorist attack they were forced to retreat in disarray. Spencer's own involvement in public Nazi politics was finished off for good the following spring, when his failed university speaking tour came to a humiliating end in another battle at the University of Michigan.

After Cville, the remnants of American Vanguard (which had included Heather Heyer's murderer James Fields) reorganized into Patriot Front. The collapse of Spencer's hard alt-right opened a vacuum into which the Proud Boys grew into another new and dangerous force. Many former Proud Boys are now ICE agents.

Now for my own experience: I had planned to deploy to Charlottesville but was strongly urged not to go because I was still way too hot from the Deploraball/stink "bomb" fracas of Jan 19 2017. A good friend who was already going shot video in my place and got footage I would not have been able to get as I would not have been able to get that close and still be able to spare one hand from fighting for the camera. About 80% of the video below is that footage.

The following day, still waiting for my friends to return, I was in the DC emergency march from the WWII Memorial to the Albert Pike statue. This foreshadowed the events of three years later when protesters tore it down.

The video below from Cville was delayed until Aug 14th because my cameraman was not back until the evening of the 13th because of the terrorist attack. I got the footage (about 80% of this finished edit) after the march from the WWII Memorial to the Pike Statue. While the footage was copying to my laptop, a drunk driver DROVE ONTO THE SIDEWALK right at us! I yelled "heads up!" but was sitting on my feet and could not move fast. I thought I was toast. The drunk driver went around us and lurched back into the street. That's when I realized he was only a drunk driver.

#Charlottesville