Mum of slain protester won't talk to Trump

The mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed when violence broke out at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, says she won't talk to Donald Trump.

The mother of a woman who was killed while protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, says she won't talk to President Donald Trump because of comments he made after her daughter's death.

Speaking on ABC's Good Morning America, Susan Bro said she initially missed the first few calls to her from the White House.

But she now says she won't talk to the president after a news conference in which Trump equated violence by white supremacists at the rally with violence by those protesting the rally.

"You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying 'I'm sorry,"' Bro said of the president. She also advised Trump to "think before you speak."

Bro's daughter, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed and 19 others were injured when a driver rammed a car into a crowd of demonstrators last Saturday. An Ohio man, James Alex Fields Jr, has been arrested and charged with murder and other offenses.


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