PROTESTS/RACISM: “The mother of the woman who was run down by a car during violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., said Friday [8-18-17] that after seeing President Trump’s comments equating white supremacist protesters with those demonstrating against them, she does not wish to speak with him…
In an interview on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America,’ Ms. Bro said that she had initially missed several calls from the White House, the first of which came during the funeral of her daughter, Heather D. Heyer, who was killed when a man drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters on Saturday.
She said that she had been too busy with the funeral and working to set up a foundation in her daughter’s name to watch the news until Thursday night. That was when she saw footage of Mr. Trump’s explosive Tuesday news conference, in which he said that there was ‘blame on both sides’ for the violence in Charlottesville…
She acknowledged a statement that she had released on Monday, in which she thanked Mr. Trump for his ‘words of comfort and for denouncing those who promote violence and hatred’ that day. But she said that after hearing his Tuesday comments, which effectively reversed what he had said the day before, she decided that she did not want to hear from him.”
-Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Mother of Woman Killed in Charlottesville Says She Will Not Speak to Trump,” The New York Times online, Aug. 18, 2017