Antifa Thugs Crash Heather Heyers’ Funeral With Weapons… Media Silent

By Ted Davis
August 17, 2017 at 11:10am

President Donald Trump has gotten a lot of flak over the past few days for his comments suggesting that there were bad actors on both sides during the violent protests on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.

While the wording of his remarks may have left a lot to be desired, Trump did have a point. The aggressive behavior of the leftist demonstrators on Saturday proved it — and on Wednesday several more made it chillingly clear.

At the funeral for Heather Heyers, the woman who was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of demonstrators Saturday, several of the so-called “antifa” thugs showed up armed, The Daily Caller reported.

The antifa protestors were outfitted with baseball bats, shields and firearms, claiming that there were there to protect the funeral because the police didn’t protect them on Saturday.

“Anti-fascist activists have just shown up outside the theater with baseball bats and purple shields,” wrote Taylor Lorenz, a reporter for The Hill, on Twitter.

Anti-fascist activists have just shown up outside the theater with baseball bats and purple shields #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/8vBlErwkng

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) August 16, 2017

“Group now swarmed by reporters. Honestly dumb to roll up w/ bats to a memorial service & expect that that’s not what the media will focus on,” she wrote in another tweet.

Group now swarmed by reporters. Honestly dumb to roll up w/ bats to a memorial service & expect that that's not what the media will focus on

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) August 16, 2017

“Anti-fascists say that they’re armed because the ‘police won’t protect the people,'” she wrote in a third tweet.

Anti-fascists say that they're armed because the "police won't protect the people"

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) August 16, 2017

We can’t confirm who these people were or what their motivation was, but Lorenz is a highly respected reporter (who actually was attacked by liberal protesters on Saturday) so she is most likely correct.

It is unclear exactly why these antifa protesters felt the need to be near the funeral with weapons. There were no active protests going on at the time, nor where there any fights breaking out.

While these people certainly had the right to be armed, what they did was very dumb. You don’t show up to a funeral armed to the teeth and expect people to believe that you are there to defend people — especially when there is no threat.

Of course, we shouldn’t expect the liberal media to ever really cover this. In mainstream media mind, it is only people on the right who are capable of extreme violence — everyone else is simply part of “peaceful protests.”

The reality is that there are bad people on both sides, just like Trump said. Trying to ignore this reality will only make the situation worse, and will let the violence continue.

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