Jason Kessler, the Charlottesville resident who organized Saturday's rally, had to flee his own news conference yesterday as some members of the crowd shouted at him, including yelling, "Shame on you!," a man appeared to try to punch him, and then chased him before he was taken away under police protection.
Kessler didn't have a chance to say much at the news conference, but he released a statement before it blaming police for the violence a day earlier. He said, "Instead of maintaining law and order, the police purposefully created the catastrophe that led to a melee in the streets of Charlottesville and the death of a counterprotester."