Current Events > Something (other than the obvious) bugging me about Charlottesville

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Obviously neo-nazis should be condemned for their hatred and the dude who killed the girl should be swiftly punished to the fullest extent of the law if he can't be summarily executed for being a piece of shit. The white supremacists are an embarrassment to the country and embracing the ideology of the group responsible for one of the darkest times in the history of the world as something to aspire to should not be tolerated.

That said, I feel this "3 left dead after violence erupts" headline I keep seeing is intentionally misleading to misrepresent the rally as claiming more lives than it did. Obviously 1 life is too many, and any violence is too much. But the 1 death is horrific enough without using 2 unrelated deaths that happened miles away to overplay the already severe nature of what happened. It seems very dishonest.

Even if the helicopter was covering the riots, if someone ran down their home stairs to watch the riots from their porch and tripped and died, you wouldn't add that to the death tally.