BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee say they are searching for a man who allegedly hit a white woman who was seated at a pub with a black man.
Nashville police said in a statement Sunday that a group of white men and women entered the pub in Brentwood and sat behind the couple. A group member invited the woman to sit with them, and another member indicated the group was involved in the “White Lives Matter” movement.
The woman said a man then hit her in the face, causing a cut above her eye. She declined treatment.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the man being sought was part of the large group.
White nationalist groups rallied Saturday in Shelbyville. A second rally in Murfreesboro, about 33 miles southeast of Brentwood, was canceled.
Bannon, was that you?
More Trump Effect™ to Make Americans Goons Again.
Stories like this - need to be broadcast across the msm. The group (the hostile party) was at this bar, because of the two rallys in Tennessee - scheduled there because they thought it would be so much more welcomed there (and the coverage showed they weren’t), no other reason they would be there, and thus that she would be attacked.
They were not welcomed in Shelbyville, Tn, and they cancelled in Murfreesboro. Lots of excuses. But by organizing this dual event in one day event - the organizers play a role in this assault.
I doubt this story will get the coverage this event deserves, given the other events of the day. But am glad that it is covered here.
The white supremacists may feel empowered by Trump, but I am hopeful that their coming out of the shadows and showing their hatefulness, will result in further alienation - as this is not who the majority of this country is. Despite Trumps post Charlottesville performance.