Harry Houck, a law enforcement analyst for CNN, said liberals who counter-protested white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., are responsible for some of the resulting violence that culminated in one death and several other injuries.
Houck posted a message Wednesday on Twitter that said, “If Antifa and [Black Lives Matter protesters] didn’t show up, Unite the Right would have finished their demonstration and went home and no one may have been killed or injured.”
— Harry J Houck (@harryjhouck) August 16, 2017
Unite the Right is the name of the rally of neo-Nazis and white supremacists who were in the city to protest the taking down of a Confederate statue.
Some witnesses, including journalists, have said counter-protesters played a part in antagonizing the Unite the Right people, though the death of a woman was the result of one white supremacist plowing a car into the liberal activist group.
During a press conference on Wednesday, President Trump said “both sides” bear some blame for the violence.
“The violence that was started by the left has to take some responsibility for the death of Heather Heyer also,” said Houck.
Houck has irked liberal groups before with his commentary on CNN.
The liberal Media Matters watchdog has dubbed him “CNN’s Resident Race-Baiter And Police Brutality Apologist.”
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment by the Washington Examiner.
