WATCH: Hundreds of Torch-Bearing White Supremacists Chanting Nazi Slogans March on UVA

‘What I Just Witnessed Was the End of America’

Chanting “White Lives Matter,” “You will not replace us!” “Jew will not replace us,” and the Nazi slogan “blood and soil,” hundreds of white supremacists wielding tiki torches marched on the University of Virginia Grounds late Friday night. The group of mostly men in their 20’s and 30’s, at times making the Nazi salute, also included “some who looked to be in their mid-teens,” The Washington Post reports.

The white supremacists were met by counter-protestors who had been organizing in a church, and by the end violence broke out, with the white supremacists fleeing after reportedly being sprayed with mace or pepper spray.

In addition to “blood and soil” the white supremacists also marched chanting “end immigration, one people, one nation.”

Before violence ended the march, which reportedly lasted 15-20 minutes, the marchers surrounded students holding signs:

The KKK-like demonstration was a precursor to thousands of so-called “alt-right,” Neo-Nazi, white nationalists, and white supremacists who will gather in Charlottesville on Saturday for a “Unite The Right” rally in Emancipation Park to protest the removal of a Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee.

The LA Times reports “one of the counter-protesters, Emily Gorcenski, tweeted:: “I am safe. I am not fine,” and “What I just witnessed was the end of America.” 

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