Jason Kessler needed police protection after a crowd disrupted his public appearance outside the city hallJason Kessler, the organiser of Saturday’s far-right rally in Charlottesville, was chased away by protesters in the city on Sunday afternoon after he tried to give a press conference. He tried to hold a joint media appearance with the alt-right leader Richard Spencer in the city centre. The two had previously distanced themselves from James Fields, the accused killer of civil rights campaigner Heather Heyes, 32, who attended the rally. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police escort Jason Kessler away from his press conference in Charlottesville. A spokesman for Solidarity Cville, Andy Stepanian, said that “it was not limited to online threats, there were real world threats”.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2017 00:22 UTC