Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe said in a prayer rally in Charlottesville, white supremacists to leave the city in the wake of violence that saw one person killed and troopers assigned to the governor’s travel detail killed in a helicopter crash.
McAuliffe denounced the people who had come to this college town for a “Unite the Right” rally, saying they weren’t the Patriots they make themselves out to be. “They get out of bed every day to hate people and divide our country,” McAuliffe said.
On Saturday, McAuliffe told the demonstrators to go home. On Sunday he went further.
“Let’s be honest, they need to leave America, because they are not Americans,” he said.
Earlier, rally organizer Jason Kessler blamed law enforcement officers for the violence over the weekend in which a woman was killed and more than 30 people were injured.
He then tried to give a news conference at city hall but was chased away by counter-protesters, who all but drowned him out as he tried to speak.
McAuliffe said he had just visited with the families of the two state troopers on his pilot, the other a member of his protection detail who was killed in a helicopter crash Saturday as they helped monitor the situation in Charlottesville. The governor also praised Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman who was killed Saturday when a car slammed into a crowd of counter-protesters.
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