White supremacists request to march again in Charlottesville–and get shut down

After this year's tragedy, the city denies group's request to protest

After this year's tragedy, the city denies group's request to protest

Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

When white nationalists and neo-Nazis wanted to march in Charlottesville again, the Virginia city said no.

According to denial letters obtained by The Daily Progress, Charlottesville denied permits for five organizers, including counterprotesters, who wanted to organize events on Aug. 11 and 12, 2018.

The letters said that such events would “present a danger to public safety” and “cannot be accommodated within a reasonable allocation of city funds and/or police resources.”

“There is no person or legal entity willing to accept responsibility for the group’s adherence” to the city laws, the manager, Maurice Jones, wrote.

Jason Kessler, who organized the “Unite the Right” march in August that led to tragedy, took to Twitter to promise to sue the “Communist government of Charlottesville” sometime “early next year.”

Kessler said in a video posted on Monday that he and his supporters were the victims, blaming counterprotesters for the violence that broke out in August. This despite the fact that it was a white nationalist who drove a car into the crowd.

Kessler also urged his followers to march anyway, even without a permit, but insisted that there should not be any violence at the event, to “prove a point.”

In his application for a permit, Kessler said that the city only needed to keep the sides separate to allow the protests to happen, but Jones wrote in his denial letter that the city “does not have the ability to determine or sort individuals according to what ‘side’ they are on.”

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