First of, yes the notion of trying to show one’s sympathy for someone who died is noble and to be attacked is completely disgusting but was it necessary to advertise to whom you are representing? Go as a person, not a political club member – PB/TK
College Republicans Chapter President Attacked at Vigil for Woman Killed in Charlottesville – By Rachel Frommer / Aug 15 2017
The president of a College Republicans chapter said he was attacked and choked by hard-left activists as he attended a vigil for the woman killed Saturday at the Charlottesville Unite the Right demonstration.
Ithaca College student Caleb Slater wrote in a statement that masked members of Antifa assaulted him at a Syracuse event held on Sunday in memory of Heather Heyer, who died when a driver plowed into counter-protesters in Virginia.
Slater wrote that he wore a Young America’s Foundation (YAF) hat to the vigil “as a symbol of peace,” and he hoped showing up to the left-wing Black Lives Matter program as an identifiable conservative would demonstrate that “conservatives condemn the actions of the alt-right just as much as anyone else in our culture.”
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