Second of two parts

Re “Cops at Fault in Charlottesville, Says Camarella”

Community activist Tom Camarella is still angered that police officers in the Charlottesville riot remained safely secluded until the action “really, really was heavy, and then they came out.”

Why did they remain off the field?
“Because they wanted the melee,” Mr. Camarella said.

“They wanted the problem.

“It’s terrible, absolutely terrible.

“I remember the same thing happened in Greensboro, NC.

“Same in the Rodney King thing,” Mr. Camarella said.

“The cops held back. They held back until it was really going.

“They know exactly what is going to happen, and that is exactly the way that it went in Charlottesville.

“Why?” he asked.

“Because they are complicit in it.

“They either sympathize with the white supremacists or they have a battle going on in their own heads.”

Mr. Camarella said that “cops deal with this stuff, day in and day out. The training for a lot of the police is just horrible.

“A black man, training to be a policeman, called the Thom Hartman Show. He said the training was racist. He said he stayed for a year and a half and could not make any changes. So he left.”

Mr. Camarella said contemporary police work “is a culture, and not a good culture.”