Police Contradict Terry McAuliffe’s Claim That Charlottesville Protesters Had Weapons ‘Stashed Around the City’
Over the weekend after the Charlottesville protests, the Governor of Virginia and Clinton loyalist Terry McAuliffe claimed that the white nationalists hid dangerous weapons within the city to prepare for the caused violence.
Local police insist this is an outrageous claim and say it is all a lie created by McAuliffe. He made an outrageous comment on Black Lives Matter during a podcast. 
From breitbart:
Virginia State Police on Tuesday contradicted Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s (D) claim that Charlottesville protesters had weapons “stashed around the city.”
McAuliffe made the claim about stashed weapons during an interview on DeRay McKesson’s podcast Save the People.
Twitter user @nycsouthpaw quoted McAuliffe using the podcast interview to describe protesters, saying, “They had battering rams and we had picked up different weapons that they had stashed around the city.”
McAuliffe’s report of caches of weapon in town — just need much more detail, how big, who organized/housed, and what did they envision? pic.twitter.com/EhEmQrKprH
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 15, 2017
Yet the very next day–August 15–Virginia State Police countered McAuliffe’s narrative by denying that any weapons caches were discovered during sweeps of the city. Reason’s CJ Ciaramella tweeted:
I just got comment back from Virginia State Police. They say, contra McAuliffe, no caches of weapons were recovered. https://t.co/rCNtEBlPsn
— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) August 16, 2017
Moreover, on August 13–the day after the violence in Charlottesville erupted–the New York Times quoted McAuliffe claiming that protesters had “better equipment than [Virginia] State Police had.” Virginia State Police countered this claim as well.
A Virginia State Police spokesperson told CJ Ciaramella, “I can assure you that the Virginia State Police personnel were equipped with more-than-adequate specialized tactical and protective gear for the purpose of fulfilling their duties to serve and protect those in attendance of the August 12 event at Charolottesville.”