Remember the Flame Thrower From Charlottesville, Well He Just Got Arrested

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Corey Long, the black man who wielded an improvised flamethrower against white nationalists two months ago at a violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va. — an incident captured in a photo that went viral — has become the second black counterprotester in two days to be arrested in relation to the rally. Charlottesville police investigators arrested Long, 23, of Culpeper, Va., Friday on charges of assault and battery and disorderly conduct

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Lt. Stephen Upman, a Charlottesville police spokesman, said the disorderly conduct charge is related to the makeshift flamethrower and the assault and battery charge is related to a separate skirmish during the rally.

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Long, who was released on an unsecured bond Friday after appearing before a magistrate, declined to comment after his arrest and referred all questions to his attorney, Malik Zulu Shabazz, national president of Black Lawyers for Justice and former national chairman of the New Black Panther Party.

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Shabazz, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a “racist black nationalist,” did not comment other than to say he would be at Long’s court hearing Tuesday.

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Damn, you know you're crazy when even the SPLC calls a black man a racist. And I'm not here to rehash CVille, and quite frankly frick all those people who were involved in that nonsense, but it does make you think about why Long was released on bond but many Whites are still in jail being held on no bond from CVille.