Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R), like President Donald Trump , has said that both white supremacists and counterprotesters are to blame for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.

The violence erupted as white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups descended on Charlottesville, ostensibly to protest a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee being removed from a public park in the city.

Tiki torch-wielding white nationalists surrounded protesters with anti-Nazi and anti-Ku Klux Klan signs who had gathered near the statue on Friday night, while others affiliated with white nationalist groups were caught on film using flagpoles to beat Deandre Harris , a 20-year-old African-American man. A Kentucky man with ties to white nationalist groups drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters on Saturday, killing one woman and injuring least 19 people.

Bevin responded by criticizing the white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups, but also said all sides were to blame for the violence.

The kind of racial hatred that were seeing from people, as has been said by the president, on all sides people are offended at the idea that people take exception with a particular type of hatred versus another, Bevin said Tuesday in an interview with West Virginia radio station WVHU . All of it is reprehensible. It just is. Theres no reason for it, theres no room for it. It doesnt further anything. And the fact that it has been allowed to accelerate out of control, as it has, is is irresponsible on the part of people who allowed it to happen.

The fact that people were allowed to clash with one another as they were in Virginia, that people were encouraged to come in and counterprotest and be just as violent and angry as the hateful people that came in in the first place people knew what was gonna happen, and its unfortunate, Bevin said. And the result of that is that innocent lives were lost. And I find the whole thing disgusting.