News just broke that one of the people hit by the car has died.

I was watching a clip from CBSN, CBS's Internet streaming service, pretty much raw footage with voice-over from Charlottesville.

As time went on, it became clearer and clearer that you could distinguish the two sides by their weaponry. The alt-right fascists did their best to dress up like a SWAT team, with helmets, batons, bullet-proof vests and body armor, and shields, all looking manufactured and not improvised.

The counter-protesters, with a few exceptions, were armed with signs and a powerful sense of outrage.

Many on the right carried guns, and as I studied them carefully, I started to pick up on the (barely) concealed weaponry.

In this clip, at 3:50, the guy in blurry brown in the foreground, has just casually dropped his shield. He keeps walking, and we see what's concealed behind it next to the arm straps:

It's a crappy internet video that provides few clean frames, so it's more obvious when you see it in motion and your eye can integrate successive frames.

That's a propane torch.

I compared images of propane torches and fire extinguishers, but I'm pretty sure it's a torch, because no fire extinguisher has the long brass tube extending from the top at an angle. And why conceal a fire extinguisher? Why carry one, for that matter?

Reports from another venue tell of the fascists trying to spray counter-protesters with lighter fluid.

Fire and fury
Feuer und Wut.