In a candid interview, Susan Bro tells Tim Teeman about holding Trump accountable for Heather’s death, facing her daughter’s alleged killer in court, and keeping her grave private.
By Tim Teeman
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia—Heather Heyer’s ashes are interred in a
safe place, says her mother Susan Bro, at an unmarked, undisclosed,
“completely protected” location.
This site cannot be publicly
known because of all those extremists who profess their hatred for Heyer
and Bro, and who convey their continued threats of violence toward Bro
and others of Heyer’s family. The location is also secret to protect
those who work there, says Bro.
She visits Heyer there in peace,
and other members of the family and close friends have been to the
location, or will be told in time where the place is and taken there.
“It’s
a symptom of hate in society that you should have to protect your
child’s grave, for Pete’s sake,” says Bro. “So, I’m protecting my child
now.”
As she tells me this, what sounds like the wheezing of a
dying animal fills the small room we are in. Bro laughs at how horrific
the computer hard drive sounds, especially as we are talking about the
death of her daughter at the same time as the machine’s mortal gurgling
continues. Every time I think I turn it off, the computer seems to turn
itself on again and the guttural howling begins anew.
“She’s here, Heather’s here,” Bro says, smiling, of the machine in the side office of the Miller Law Group, where Heyer
worked as a paralegal, aiding people facing bankruptcy. Heyer, 32, was
killed after being struck by a car while protesting against white
supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12. Many other counterprotesters alongside her were injured.
President Trump blamed “many sides” for the Charlottesville violence, and said there “very fine people” on both of those sides. After seeing these remarks, Bro would not take his calls.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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