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Originally Posted by whosnext
A charitable interpretation of the armed militia members being at the rally is that they were there to prevent either side from suppressing the free speech of the other side. From what I have read they had already left the area (at the request of the local police and national guard) when the fatal incident took place.
Yes, they were essentially neutral, which makes cows question irrelevant. Cows is suggesting they were there to side with the Nazis. They weren't.
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In any event, nobody should advocate, support, or condone the violence experienced at the rally. Especially the irresponsible neo-nazi nutjob who used his car like a battering ram into a crowd of counter-protesters and caused one death and numerous injuries.
The car incident was horrific. No one is in any way condoning that. The "fighting" though, seemed to be provoked from the leftists. As I've said, they had bats, the Nazis had shields. There's a good reason for that.
And to be honest the "fighting" didn't seem too bad. Neither side really committed and the "violence" was really just a bunch of pudgy out of shape people slapping each other. If you look at the video closely there were many chances to really hurt someone and people didn't take it. For example, when Erdogan was here and his bodyguards got into a fight with protestors, they were actually trying to hurt them. The Nazis and antifa werent.