But Talia Lavin of GQ feels differently. In a lengthy op-ed spanning nearly 2,000 words, Lavin compares the protesters to Nazis – as illustrated by the head photo being a swastika formed from assault rifles – while arguing the protests were anything but peaceful.
According to Lavin, the protesters essentially held the city at gunpoint, forcing its residents into silence as they flagrantly marched through the streets with vast arrays of weaponry. She also highlights the fact that the FBI arrested members of a neo-Nazi group several days before the event who planned to open fire on the crowd with the intent of starting a race war.
“Just outside the legions of police barricades, [thousands] of people roamed the streets of Richmond bearing a bristling mass of rifles, from AR-15s to massive Barrett sniper rifles,” writes Lavin. “Some wore skull masks; others waved Confederate flags. Members of hate groups like the League of the South and the American Guard, as well as the Proud Boys, mingled openly; some of the latter were wearing patches that said ‘RWDS’—an acronym for ‘Right-Wing Death Squad.'”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gq-c...ts-protesters-to-nazis-wasnt-exactly-peaceful
According to Lavin, the protesters essentially held the city at gunpoint, forcing its residents into silence as they flagrantly marched through the streets with vast arrays of weaponry. She also highlights the fact that the FBI arrested members of a neo-Nazi group several days before the event who planned to open fire on the crowd with the intent of starting a race war.
“Just outside the legions of police barricades, [thousands] of people roamed the streets of Richmond bearing a bristling mass of rifles, from AR-15s to massive Barrett sniper rifles,” writes Lavin. “Some wore skull masks; others waved Confederate flags. Members of hate groups like the League of the South and the American Guard, as well as the Proud Boys, mingled openly; some of the latter were wearing patches that said ‘RWDS’—an acronym for ‘Right-Wing Death Squad.'”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gq-c...ts-protesters-to-nazis-wasnt-exactly-peaceful
