FNC’s McKelway: Protesters in Charlottesville Carrying Sticks with Nails on the End of Them

RUSH EXCERPT:

McKELWAY: "A lot of people walking around with very large sticks, I have seen a couple of sticks, a couple of people with sticks with nails in the end of them. One of the people in our team said when he first got here he saw a couple of KKK members openly carrying handguns and assault-kind of rifles. I asked him, you know, if the police were checking these people for concealed carry permits and he said, no, no indication that police have been doing that. There are handguns, there are weapons here in the possession and openly being displayed by KKK members and alt-right nationalist groups. We are moving in the direction of what used to be call Lee park, now called the emancipation park and if you can shoot the statute of Robert E. Lee you can see — loud bang there. I don’t know if it’s a fire cracker. Let’s hope it’s not gunfire. You can see the statute of Robert E. Lee in the middle of the park right there. That statute was ordered removed by the city of charlottesville earlier this year and it is still here now because there’s a court order blocking the removal pending another hearing. It’s the source of a lot of contention here. You can’t walk-through the city, you can’t walk-through the county and state of Virginia without running any number of things in places and people named Lee but the city has made a coaxer decision to remove that particular statute from this park. That’s why the alt-right groups are protesting here today and that’s also why these counterprotestors are gathered around the perimeter protesting the alt-right movement. I want to talk to another guy right over here. If you can come this way. I don’t know where he went."