The mother of a woman killed last weekend while protesting white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. says she will not speak with Donald Trump after he compared her daughter to white supremacists.

“I’m not talking to the president now, I’m sorry, after what he said about my child,” Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, said Friday morning on Good Morning America. “It’s not that I saw somebody else’s tweets about him. I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters like Ms. Heyer with the KKK and the white supremacists.”

On Tuesday, Trump said that the “alt-left” was just as responsible for the violence that resulted in a series of clashes between far-right protesters and those who opposed them, most fatally when an alleged Nazi drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heyer and injuring 19 others.

Heyer, 32, was among counterprotesters demonstrating against the “Unite The Right” rally, a gathering of far-right groups who opposed the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The white supremacists held tiki torches and Confederate and Nazi flags as they marched through the college town, chanting slogans like “Blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.”

Trump’s comments on Tuesday mirrored what he initially said on the day of the car crash, when he tepidly blamed “violence on many sides,” leading to criticism from even those in his own party that he was emboldening Nazis and other white-supremacists.

When Trump called the KKK and other white nationalist groups “repugnant” on Monday, denouncing the “racist, bigoted violence” that occurred in Charlottesville, Bro publicly thanked him for his remarks. But she says his additional statement on Tuesday has changed her mind.

Interfaith clergy who were protesting the Unite the Right gathering say that counterprotesters like Heyer prevented the armed Nazis and alt-righters from attacking them. “We were prepared to be beaten to a bloody pulp to show that while the state permitted white nationalists to rally in hate, in the many names of God, we did not,” Charlottesville resident Rebekah Menning told Slate. “But we didn’t have to because the anarchists and anti-fascists got to them before they could get to us. I’ve never felt more grateful and more ashamed at the same time. The antifa were like angels to me in that moment.”

Bro said that the White House had attempted multiple times to reach her over the phone, once during Heyer’s funeral. At first, she had just missed the calls, but has since decided that she does not want to speak to Trump.

“You can’t wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying ‘I’m sorry,'” Bro said of the president. “I’m not forgiving for that.”

At Heyer’s funeral on Tuesday, mourners remembered her as a strong-willed person who was dedicated to equality.

“They tried to kill my child to shut her up, but guess what, you just magnified her,” Bro said to a standing ovation. “I’d rather have my child, but by golly if I got to give her up, we’re going to make it count.”

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