A Twitter post from the account of Jason Kessler, the far-right activist who organized the Charlottesville, Va., “Unite the Right” rally, insulted the protester who was killed at the event, saying late Friday night that her death was “payback time.”
“Heather Heyer was a fat, disgusting Communist,” the post said. “Communists have killed 94 million. Looks like it was payback time.”
The post linked to a story on neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer that also insulted Heyer in crude terms and appeared to take glee in her death.
Kessler did not respond to messages seeking comment.
Police say Heyer was killed when a rally attendee, James A. Fields, drove his sports car into a crowd of counterprotesters at the event Aug. 12, which drew white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other far-right figures from around the nation.
fishbowliolio on August 20th, 2017 at 07:03 UTC »
I love the victim complex of "supremacists" who seem to act like the cornered dog with tail tucked between their legs. "Payback" for what?
agrimmguy on August 20th, 2017 at 05:35 UTC »
Wow.
This guy seems like a real piece of shit.
TooShiftyForYou on August 20th, 2017 at 02:43 UTC »
On Saturday morning, the post had been deleted from Kessler’s account, which initially claimed he’d been hacked, but then backtracked and said he’d been on a mixture of drugs.
The "I've been hacked" defense fails yet again.