One more behind-the-scenes by one of the demonstration organizers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSOoh_bbvwU

Pay special attention to the part between 5:00 and 7:00 in the video. Where they petitioned the city to lawfully and peacefully protest, it was first unlawfully denied, until they then sued with the assistance of the ACLU, no less, and got a legal approval for their protest.

Then they showed up as lawfully permitted by the city, and once they got all the way to the protest site, the police shoved them out of the safe barricaded planned area of their protest, and pushed them (with video footage showing the cops doing it) into the waiting arms of the Antifa rioters, who clubbed and threw rocks at them all the way to the parking lot.
They followed legal procedure, but then the procedure they followed was bait-and-switched, and suddenly declared illegal, leaving them nowhere to go. Certainly nowhere safe.

So much for the rule of law.


Charlottesville Riot Police unlawfully shutdown permitted rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLgc2zFoVmE

Definitely not endorsing the message, but these guys weren't hurting anyone. It's disturbing what the Charlottesville police did (or actually, I assume the VSP on their helmets are the Virginia State Police. The Charlottsville city police were MIA and only showed up later.) At the end they're shouting at the police pushing them, that they're being pushed right into the opposing Antifa protestors, who are waiting for them with rocks and clubs. And as is visible, the police just stood there and let them be beaten.
The police did the polar opposite of keeping the hostile sides apart, they pushed the white nationalist protestors right into the waiting clubs of the Antifa mob that vastly outnumbered them. The police CREATED the violence.


See the Sparks that set off violence in Charlottesville (National Geographic documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDIfPhx-Fm0