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Jan 05, 2014
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Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo has not had a pleasant couple of weeks. During a coffee shop interview on January 2, Longo took time to discuss the fall-out from an allegedly vicious, unprovoked attack on a white couple by three black males that occurred on the Downtown Mall early Thursday morning on December 20. A story on the attack that ran in Cville Weekly, which relied on the testimony of the victims, quickly went viral, prompting hundreds of comments, many of them so hostile and racist that the paper made the decision to shut down the comment section. Across the Internet, the story has been characterized as a vicious, racially charged "knock-out game" style attack, done for sport and entertainment on unsuspecting White victims. What's more, the Cville Weekly story highlighted the victims opinion that the police had been slow to respond, and "didn't seem to care" about seeking justice.

Needless to say, the barrage of emails and phone calls that Longo has received have not b…

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