Perspective: Her daughter died at Charlottesville. She wants the feds to do more to fight hate.
By Joe Davidson Joe Davidson Columnist focusing on federal government issues Email Bio Follow Columnist May 17 at 6:00 AM Susan Bro watched silently as a gut-wrenching video replayed the viciousness that killed her daughter. When the video stopped, Bro took a tissue and wiped tears from her face.
She went to Congress to fight white-supremacist violence and for more aggressive federal action against it. During a break in the hearing, she admitted in an interview that her first congressional testimony left her “a little frazzled.” She and her husband drove to and from Charlottesville on Wednesday, a round trip of several hours, to save money.Bro was treated with sympathy and deference by the committee, including the few Republicans who attended — a poor turnout she said saddened her.
“Now on its second renaming exercise, the Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention currently consists of eight staff and a budget of $2.6 million,” his statement said. The office once reported to the secretary, he added, but now must go through “at least four layers of bureaucracy” to get there.
That makes “white supremacists the deadliest extremist movement in the United States over the past decade,” Selim said.
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