Vice President Pence: White Supremacy Needs to Get Out of America
14 August 2017 11:14 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Charlottesville - Vice President Mike Pence insists there is no place for white supremacist groups including the Ku Klux Klan or KKK and neo-Nazis in the United States in connection with the bloody clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK. These dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in the American debate, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms," Pence said on his way to Cartagena, Colombia to respond to clashes between white supremacy groups White with its opponents on Saturday, August 12, 2017.
Pence was different from President Donald Trump who did not clearly mention white supremacy as a trigger for bloody clashes.
The Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe reaffirmed his statement to the white supremacist group to leave Virginia as soon as possible. This group is considered to have brought division in society.
"They get out of bed every day to hate people and divide our country," McAuliffe said as quoted by CNN.
"Let's be honest, they need to leave America, because they are not Americans," McAuliffe insisted as the clashes broke out.
Clashes between white supremacist groups and opposition groups killed three people. A 32-year-old woman named Heather Heyer was killed in a car incident that bumped into protesters opposing white supremacist groups.
Two policemen were killed while monitoring the clashes by helicopter. The helicopter fell in the hills near Charlottesville. Pilot Jay Cullen, 48, and his partner, Bates, 41-year-old, were killed.
A total of 19 people were injured, some are still hospitalized and some are already home.
The driver of the car that crashed into the protester, James Alex Fields Jr., was arrested and charged with murder killing up to death.
Three other men were arrested as suspected clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday last week by white supremacist groups.
CNN | BBC | MARIA RITA
