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Counter-protester Heather Heyer was killed during last year's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
DANIELLE MCLEAN AUG 5, 2018, 10:17 AM
D.C.s Metrorail system has reportedly killed a proposal to provide dedicated trains for white nationalists planning to march through Washington D.C.
Yesterday, Metros board chairman and District of Columbia Councilmember Jack Evans (D) said the transit system was considering providing dedicated rail cars for white nationalists attending the planned Unite the Right rally, in an effort to keep the peace between them and expected counter-protesters. However, after Metros largest union argued that hate groups should not receive special service, Evans and transit system leaders have nixed the idea.
Evans told NBC 4 in Washington, D.C. that Metro will not be having a separate train, or a separate car, or anything separate for anybody at this event thats gonna happen next Sunday.
During last years Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, white nationalists and some Nazis attacked counter-protesters. One drove a car into a crowd, killing counter-protester Heather Heyer.
One of Metros scenarios for keeping the peace would have allowed white supremacist rally participants to board three dedicated rail cars at the East Falls Church Metro stop in Virginia and take it to Foggy Bottom in downtown D.C., then receive a special police escort to the rally on the National Mall.
Metros ATU Local 689 union leaked the plans to the press, noting that because 80 percent of its membership are people of color, the very people that the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalist groups have killed, harassed and violated, the union would not take part in the unprecedented special accommodation plan.
https://thinkprogress.org/dc-subway-drops-plan-to-provide-dedicated-trains-to-white-nationalists-34802e6a78bd/
kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)turbinetree
(24,710 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Good on the union for releasing the proposal
whopis01
(3,522 posts)In fact it seems like exactly what white nationalists would want.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)People on every car of every train blocking entrances so these cretins cant board
noobareus
(21 posts)Give them there cars and whatever the hell they need to do there little rally.
We can make sure there stupid rally gets in and out with as little press as possible and no drama or we can give them a platform to claim they were denied there rights and blah blah blah.
Ignore them and the press can't have a reason to cover them and they go away.
Make it as hard as possible for them and we give them the chance to claim they are the victims and they get weeks of free press coverage
They only do these stupid rallies for press time.Take away the press and they fade away
Roland99
(53,342 posts)noobareus
(21 posts)just ignore them.
Antifa gave them 1000 times more press than they could have ever generated on there own
The only reason they got press is the anticipation of riots in the streets....take that away and the press will ignore them
Bettie
(16,120 posts)people who might be attacked by violent elements in the three dedicated cars?
If so, they should not be allowed to ride at all, if they are a threat to the safety of other riders.