Video: Racist Yells "Hey Nigger" & Fires a Gun at a Black Man in Charlottesville as White Cops Do Nothing

Felony Committed in Front of Cops. Arrested 2 Weeks Later in White Over Black System of Unequal Power. ACLU of VA released this video today from Charlottesville on Aug. 12. "We handed this video to law enforcement agencies and the man has been arrested and charged with a crime."

From [HERE] and [HERE] A white man attending the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month fired his gun in the direction of a black counterprotester who was holding a torch, and police in their vicinity did not seem to respond. It was not in self defense.  

Those events appear in a video filmed two weeks ago by a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and published by the civil rights group on Saturday.

As seen in the footage below, a man in a blue sleeveless shirt, a green vest and a bandana on his head pulls out a gun and aims it at a counterprotester, who is off camera and appears to be holding a makeshift lit torch. The first man appears to yell a "here nigger" or "hey nigger" at the black man, then fires the gun toward the ground in the direction of the counterprotesters. 

The white shooter then leaves the scene by joining a line of white supremacist protesters and walking right past law enforcement officers, who were standing behind metal barricades about 10 feet away watching the entire time.

Police arrested Richard Wilson Preston, 52, in connection with the incident in the video above, the Daily Progress reported on Saturday. Wilson was charged with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school during the so-called “Unite The Right” rally on Aug. 12. He is in custody in Towson, Maryland.

Rosia Parker, a Charlottesville activist who was there when the man fired his gun, told the New York Times that police did nothing when the shooting occurred.

“We all heard it and ran ― I know damn well they heard it,” Parker told the Times, referencing the police who were standing behind the barricades. “They never moved.”

Corinne Geller, a white spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police, told the newspaper that troopers did not react to the shooting because they couldn’t hear the gun being fired over “the loud volume of the crowd yelling and chanting, drums and music.” 

“Had any one of our troopers witnessed that incident they would have immediately acted just as they did for the other four arrests made during the weekend,” Geller told the Times. [MORE]

Videos Show Slow Police Response to Violent Protests in Charlottesville. 

Rather than looking at the mirror, other neuropeons have simply denied that Charlottsville actually happened, claiming it was a staged hoax [MORE] and many  neuropeans minimize what went on. [MORE]