ACLU of Virginia asserts that UTR demonstrators were set up.

Granted, the ACLU is not usually our friend, but their blind squirrels do find nuts on occasion. Seems they were involved in the matters leading up to the UTR rally, and feel that the entire thing was a set up to allow AntiFa to inflict violence for political gain.

ACLU response to Virginia Governor.

Money quote:

"It is the responsibility of law enforcement to ensure safety of both protestors and counter-protestors. The policing on Saturday was not effective in preventing violence. I was there and brought concerns directly to the secretary of public safety and the head of the Virginia State Police about the way that the barricades in the park limiting access by the arriving demonstrators and the lack of any physical separation of the protestors and counter-protestors on the street were contributing to the potential of violence. They did not respond. In fact, law enforcement was standing passively by, seeming to be waiting for violence to take place, so that they would have grounds to declare an emergency, declare an 'unlawful assembly', and clear the area."