The deadly events set in motion by a white supremacist march in Charlottesville get a close examination in today’s Washington Post. Police are coming in for criticism for not establishing buffer zones and, worse, not acting when violence occurred.

But arrests now have occurred in the case of racists who beat a black man and the law is also pursuing a man who shouted a racial epithet and fired a handgun with police standing by.

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