Activists using social media to identify participants in last weekend’s right wing Charlottesville rally have fingered a Honeoye Falls-Lima High School graduate. Now the Honeoye Falls mayor is saying illegal posts won’t be allowed after someone pasted up fliers calling the 21-year-old man out all over the Village.
Jarrod Kuhn was pictured carrying a torch at the Friday night demonstration on the University of Virginia Campus that started the weekend violence in Charlottesville. A former classmate and a group called “Anti-Facist News” both put the photo up on their Facebook pages. Someone then used it to make those posters.
Kuhn’s family told Rochester media that Jarrod went to Virginia to protest removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee and left the march when it turned violent and he was hit with a brick. He was not there on Saturday when Heather Heyer was struck and killed by a car driven by a protester. The family claims he wanted to preserve history and is not a neo-nazi. But neo-nazis and Klan members did also march in the rally and carried the torches.
Honeoye Falls mayor Richard Milne says in a statement that he condemns bigotry, Nazis and white supremacists. But he says the flier titled “No Nazis in our neighborhood” was put up illegally and the Village doesn’t want to stoop to that level. Milne says he’s sent his concerns on to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.