Chaos Breaks Out at Charlottesville City Council Meeting<br />CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — They shouted down the mayor<br />and City Council members, took over the Council chambers for about a half-hour, and gave more than four hours of impassioned testimony about how city officials had botched the response to the deadly white supremacist rally here this month.<br />In the end, the angry residents who spoke at the Charlottesville City Council meeting on Monday got some measure<br />of action as officials said they would have a third-party review the city’s planning and reaction to the rally.<br />The meeting started out without incident, but as soon as the rally was mentioned, several residents<br />began shouting down city officials for allowing the Aug. 12 “Unite the Right” rally to take place.<br />And we can’t have freedom of speech?”<br />At one point, two people stood on the dais and unfurled a banner with the words “Blood on your hands!” as council members and the mayor left the room.<br />That move was significant, as it was the Council’s decision earlier this year to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee<br />that prompted the white nationalists to rally in the city earlier this month.
