Then the same person pointed it at my foot and shot the ground. We all heard it and ranI know damn well they heard it, a community activist in Virginia told the New York Times about the police officers reaction to the shot. They never moved. The new video can be viewed at the New York Times website. Other videos on You. Tube appear to show the same man pulling his gun at least two other times during the same day. But the new video, released by the Virginia chapter of the ACLU and obtained by the New York Times, is even more shocking than the video above because the unnamed man actually discharges his weapon. Video and photos surfaced on social media in the immediate aftermath of violence in Charlottesville showing neo Nazi groups pushing up against a line of police officers with only minimal resistance from the cops. It was a stark contrast to the way that American police typically respond to any sort of resistance at public demonstrations. The rally, officially known as Unite the Right, was a major turning point in Americas understanding of hate groups in the US. Organized by Jason Kessler, a white supremacist and former contributor to The Daily Caller, the rally showed that racists who may previously have been scared to be so public in their hate are no longer worried about organizing. Kessler referred to the death of 3. Scada Symbol Library. Heather Heyer at the rally as payback time on Twitter and called her a fat disgusting Communist. He soon deleted the tweet, blaming it on drugs and alcohol from the previous night. But Kessler reiterated the same sentiment just a few days later on the same day that President Trump held a rally in Phoenix, Arizona. President Donald Trump received criticism in the wake of the neo Nazi protests in Charlottesville for not denouncing the hate groups forcefully enough. Trumps now infamous take on the rally was that there was violence committed on both sides, a battle cry that has no become common on White Nationalist Twitter. President Trump energized neo Nazis when he referred to Antifa at his recent rally in Phoenix on August 2. And fascist linked groups online are even more emboldened after his pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio was announced on Twitter last night. Font Navigator 2006 Hacked Shooting GamesArpaio was convicted of ignoring a court order to stop illegally targeting members of the Latino community. He spent 1. 8 months ignoring that order, and was never even charged for some of his most heinous crimes. Arpaio forced women to give birth in shackles, he failed to investigate hundreds of sexual abuse cases, he ran what he called a concentration camp, and he arrested reporters who covered him. Font Navigator 2006 Hacked Shooting ZombieArpaio even staged a fake assassination attempt in 1. Needless to say, Arpaio is a very bad guy. With President Trump in the White House its clear that neo Nazis, Klansmen, and just all around shitty people now feel like they can walk around in public shooting guns near crowds with impunity. Hopefully the arrest of this unnamed man changes that ever so slightly. But with pardons now on the table, who knows whats going through the minds of the fascists organizing the next Charlottesville and the one after thatNothing good, to be sure. Update, August 3. The man arrested for firing his gun has been identified as 5. Richard W. Preston, a member of the Ku Klux Klan. He has reportedly been charged with assault on three separate occasions and rape on another occasion, though he wasnt convicted. From the Baltimore City Paper Richard W. Preston, 5. 2 years old, of the 5. Cedonia Avenue, was picked up on a warrant by federal law enforcement on Saturday and deposited in the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson. He is charged with firing a gun within 1,0. He was jailed in Towson, and not Baltimore City, because the FBI collared him in the county and not the city, according to Corporal George Erhardt, a spokesman for Baltimore County Police. As President Trump said, very fine people indeed.