Impossible Things Are Happening Every Day

A couple nearly killed in the violent clashes between demonstrators and white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., last summer finally got to tie the knot this weekend.

Marcus Martin was seen in a powerful photo being struck by white nationalist James Field Jr.’s Dodge Challenger as it plowed into a group of people protesting an Aug. 12, 2017, hate group rally in the Virginia town.

He pushed fiancée Marissa Blair out of the way, but his left leg was broken and their friend Heather Heyer was fatally struck by the car.

Wedding planner Christina Moore from Bella Giornata Events & Designs contacted the couple, who had delayed their wedding after Heyer’s death.

She teamed up with 30 vendors to carry out the ceremony free of charge.

Joe Ottomanelli reportedly gave Victor Sheppard the noose as a “gift,” the victim told the News.

“If you ever have any stress, just put it around your neck and pull it. I could even help you with it,” Sheppard claims Ottomanelli told him.

Ottomanelli did not deny giving Sheppard the noose, but he said the whole incident was a joke. He added that he wanted to apologize, noting that he works with many black people and wasn’t “raised that way.”

I don’t know about you, but that DOES NOT seem like something to joke about. According to the delivery man, Victor Sheppard, who’s been delivering to the butcher for eight months, this isn’t the first racist thing that Ottomanelli has said to him. 

“Mentally and emotionally, he’s really hurt me. I felt very endangered, just doing my job,” Sheppard tells the Daily News. “This is a man who’s 58-plus. He really thinks handing a noose to a black man is sending a playful message?”

And of course people have come to Ottomanelli’s defense, trying to make this racist action seem less horrible than it really is.

The owner of Bleeker Street Pizza, who said he has known Ottomanelli for 20 year, said the allegations against him were “bullsh–.” “He probably joked and someone took it the wrong way,” the pizza maker, Tony Salihaj, said. “I think it’s bulls–t.”

Sarah Drew has a message for Kelly’s haters.

Sarah Drew has a message for Kelly’s haters.