A Baltimore-based KKK member has been arrested for firing a gun towards a Black man at the now infamous "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, VA. The criminal thug has been identified as 52 year old Richard Wilson Preston. Preston is reportedly an imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Maryland chapter. Or, the Baltimore-area Confederate White Knights of the KKK. He was arrested on Monday August 28th in Baltimore - more than two weeks after his violent attendance at the notorious (and deadly) white supremacist rally. Preston fired his weapon in a Black counter-protester's direction, but in full view of cops standing several yards away, as well as dozens of eye-witnesses. Thankfully, no one was harmed in this particular incident.
Proud White Trash: Terrorist and thug Richard Preston pictured here.
Preston was arrested on a fugitive warrant issued in VA. He was being held at the Baltimore county jail, but has since bonded out. He has been charged not with attempted murder or terroristic threats or firing a gun at a crowd full of unarmed people. Instead, he's been charged with, "discharging a firearm near a school". A misdemeanor. Preston's belated arrest came not because police were actually investigating him. But only after the ACLU had discovered video of Preston's actions while reviewing footage from the Aug. 11th and 12th Nazi/Klan rallies. The ACLU subsequently turned that evidence over to authorities.
The Black counter-protester at which Preston aimed his gun is Corey Long, a Charlottesville resident. Not a life-long activist, but simply wanting to defend his city, Long became a hero when he turned a can of spray paint into an improvised blowtorch... and used it to fend off Nazis! According to verified reports, Long himself did not bring the can to the protest - it was thrown at him by someone on the Nazi side earlier. Later, Long put a lighter to the can and used it in self-defense.
Unhooded: Preston pictured below wearing blue tee shirt and flak jacket. Preston points his gun at Corey Long and cocks the weapon, before aiming downward and shooting the ground at Long's feet. Just out of frame, cops stand in formation mere yards away, yet take no action.
Flame war: In this viral photo, local resident Corey Long is pictured using a spray paint can as an improvised blowtorch to fend off racist thugs, while defending fellow protesters.
By now, police inaction on that weekend (particularly Saturday afternoon, when most of the fascist criminal activity occurred) has been well documented. This case was no different. Video of this incident shows a formation of cops (VA state police) standing just yards away when Preston pulled out a gun, cocked, and fired it at a crowd of people. Despite this clear criminal act, cops do nothing. No police attempt was ever made to search for Preston or seek out his identity. The only reason he was arrested is because the ACLU found video footage of him committing the crime, id'd him, and handed the evidence to police. This incident reinforces the fact that cops were inherently on the side of White supremacist criminals and terrorists. But looking at the big picture, it also shows a greater law enforcement bias as cops are hard-pressed to do their damned jobs when it comes to White criminals with actual guns. But Black people (sometimes children) are routinely murdered by cops because they were thought to have had a gun, but didn't. Or killed within seconds for having a toy gun.
Events from Charlottesville that weekend also unveil another troubling pattern: all the known victims have been local, while all the perpetrators have been out-of-state.
- Heather Heyer - murdered in Nazi terrorist attack: local resident
- Marcus Martin - ran over by car as he pushes fiancee out of harm's way: local
- Deandre Harris - viciously attacked by racist thugs - local
- Corey Long - had gun pointed at him by KKK member: local
- James Fields - man behind terrorist attack that killed Heyer and injured dozens of others: from Maumee, OH
- Daniel Borden - one of the men id'd in the Harris attack: from Mason, OH
- Alex Ramos - another man accused of attacking Harris: from Marietta, GA
- Richard Preston - klansman who fired gun at crowd: from Baltimore, MD
Indeed, the Alt-Reich/White supremacist rally was organised almost entirely by outsiders. One attendee - Peter Cvjetanovic - flew in from Nevada! He's enrolled at the U. of Reno. By contrast, most if not all the counter-protesters are either local or regional residents. Yet, local and state police did absolutely nothing to protect locals, which is literally their one job! Instead, cops (and Charlottesville's city council) allowed a group criminal outsiders to swarm into town, parade through the streets with torches, commit violent acts, harm and murder innocent people. Cops just stand by, while locals are forced to fend for themselves. And arrests are only made after citizen activists and the ACLU find these animals online and expose them. If cops can't be bothered to do their goddamned job, what the Hell good are they?!
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