Charlottesville anniversary: anger over police failures simmers at protest

The subject of the protesters’ chants on Saturday was anger over law enforcement officers’ inaction last year when they stood by as white supremacists attacked counter-protesters

In the darkness, at least a hundred officers in riot gear waited in front of the statue of Robert E Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia. They stood very still, and it was hard to see them, except when the light caught their reflective vests, or glinted off the edge of a raised plastic face shield.

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