Metro Gives White Supremacists VIP Treatment: Claim

Metro all but rolled out the red carpet for a small group of white supremacists who arrived in D.C. over the weekend, claims the union that represents Metro workers, and many people aren't happy.

WMATA denied reports that it would set aside a special train for Unite the Right protesters on Sunday, but ATU Local 689 claims that Metro lied.

"DC, now you see who was telling the truth about the racist marchers being escorted onto Metro and who lied," the union tweeted Sunday afternoon. "[Metro General Manager Paul] Wiedefeld lied to riders and public when the truth was more convenient. The fallout of today will be on him."

Fox 5 reports that when Jason Kessler and the handful of other Unite the Right protesters boarded the Metro train, witnesses claimed that they received preferential treatment and their own private train car.

In a statement to Fox 5, Metro said they may have made certain decisions "regarding crowd control and safety," and punted the question to the police.

It wasn't just Metro that seemed to be going out of its way to make sure white supremacists were comfortable. Police in riot gear reportedly created a special entrance just for Unite the Right protesters at the Vienna Metro station, not allowing anyone who is not a white supremacist to enter at that gate.

VIDEO - Police in riot gear enter @wmata Vienna station - north entrance was just closed to general public. We’re being told by police that ONLY #UniteTheRight2 protesters will be allowed in this entrance - NOT the general public @WUSA9 pic.twitter.com/tLUQfuWCtF
— Mike Valerio (@MikevWUSA) August 12, 2018

Last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. resulted in violence and the death of Heather Heyer, who was struck and killed by a car that plowed into a group of leftist protesters.

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