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100 Days In Appalachia West Virginia Delegate Danielle Walker speaking with a counter protester at a Black Lives Matter Rally in Kingwood, WV in September 2020. 2020 presented new levels of outrage over police killings of Black and Brown people in this nation. Police killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor which prompted protests, marches and rallies to denounce racially motivated police brutality. A Black Lives Matter march in Kingwood, West Virginia set up a flash point for that tiny town. Bl...

>> reporter: losing faith, an uncommon sight. students protesting at one of the largest christian colleges in the world, targeting the schools president jerry falwell jr. >> hes not being a greater leader. >> reporter: founded in 1971 by his father jerry falwell liberty university in lynchburg, virginia, boasts 10,000 students but jerry falwell jr. is facing backlash over the business dealings of the school. just this week, an email in which falwell belittles a student and staff member. >> we wa...

Man, im proud of you. youve made a ton of progress. ive got to be honest too, im also concerned. since we started working together, gabe has severed ties with the hammer skins. but i found out just a few months ago he marched in the largest white power rally in more than a decade. >> jews will not replace us! jews will not replace us! >> on august 11th and 12th, 2017, 500 white supremacists descended on the small college down of charlottesville, virginia. >> white lives matter, white lives matte...

Anti-semiti anti-semitism. certainly, we have talked about and in the wake of the el paso shooting, we were discussing the administrations lack of attention to the rise of white nationalists and the increasing threat that is posed by potential domestic terrorists who have white supremacist views, it goes back to charlottesville when he equivocated between neonazis who were marching in charlottesville and counterprotesters from the left, and so what hes trying to do is create an opening with jewi...

Would choose not to attend the presidential visit and were given the option to take paid time off instead, as with any workweek, if someone chooses to take pto they are not eligible to receive maximum overtime. essentially it is only mandatory if you do want to get paid. now, we have reached out to the white house about this and we have yet to hear back. >> okay, kristen holmes, thank you for that update. now to portland, oregon and the tense scene created by dueling protests from far right ex...

Always run high when we have these conversations, but theyre important to have. thank you to jennifer rubin, noda, dean. a rally is being organized in portland by whats called the proud boys. they are designate as a hate group in this country. they are to be met by counter-protesters. the proud boys say the purpose of the event is to oppose an anti-fascist, what some have labeled latiantifa. donald trump said, antifa was named as an organization of

Amy klobuchar courting those voters and hoping for a win in 2020. ana? >> layla santiago, thank you. lets head to the west coast and police in portland, oregon, arresting three people after mondays of protesters confronted each other and were taking to the streets keeping that city on edge. >> no justice! no peace! >> large groups of far-right extremists and counterprotesters gathered in downtown portland today making people there afraid the two sides would clash violently as they have in the ...

For people like those of us who live in el paso, texas, these laws are a matter of life and death. >> reporter: there were a couple of counterprotesters here at back of the group, but so far no major confrontations with them. we see there are tents back there, college students registering others to vote, trying to get that young voice to speak out. and theres also another table where there are postcards for people to send notes to senator mitch mcconnells office asking him to have that debate on...

Ground and weve been watching a tense scene. far right groups and counterprotesters including far left group antifa are on scene. sara sidner, we know police have confiscated everything from bear spray to shields to metal and will wooden poles. whats happening there now is it looks like things are relatively peaceful behind you. >> reporter: they are peaceful. what you have is the police basically separated folks from the proud boys and who came for that and the leftist groups like antifa there ...

Naming it an organization of terror, but remaining mute on far-right extremists and self-declared white supremacists. i do want to note the u.s. doesnt have a domestic terrorism law and no government agency designates domestic groups as being terrorist organizations. joining us now is heather heiers mother susan breaux. we have these far-right groups including white supremacists holding a rally and counterprotesters weve seen are on site with signs that mention your daughters name, trying to rem...