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Chris Jones/Business Insider One year after a white-supremacist rally turned violent, ultimately killing Heather Heyer, a Charlottesville local, people gathered to memorialize the one-year anniversary. Last year, a gathering of white nationalists at the Unite the Right rally clashed with counter-protesters. This year, locals and demonstrators came together to honor Heyer, stand in solidarity against […]
The US President has spoken out against racism and violence ahead of a fresh Unite the Right rally on Sunday, and has trumpeted his own achievements that he says have benefitted African-Americans and Hispanics. “The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. We must come together as a nation. I […]
The charge against the man accused of driving his car into a crowd of people protesting a group of white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia — killing a woman — was upgraded Thursday to first-degree murder. James Alex Fields Jr., an apparent neo-Nazi, is charged with driving his Dodge Charger into the counter-protesters on Aug. […]
Charlottesville Police Department James Alex Fields, Jr., a white nationalist accused of killing a 32-year old woman when he plowed his car into a crowd of counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, is now facing a first-degree murder charge. Fields is suspected of killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 people. He faces life in prison […]
Published time: 12 Dec, 2017 17:38 The city of Charlottesville has denied permits for white nationalist and left-wing groups seeking to commemorate the Unite the Right rally in which white nationalists faced off with counter-protesters before a fatal vehicle attack. In an email obtained by the Daily Progress, city spokeswoman Miriam Dickler said the authorities […]
Police and government officials failed to ensure public safety and protect free speech during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, an independent review concluded. An anti-fascist protester was killed after the rally. “The city was unable to protect the right of free expression and facilitate the permit holder’s offensive speech,” said the […]
Thomson Reuters Americans were shocked by more than the hate speech at a Unite the Right demonstration in the university town of Charlottesville, Virginia, this August. Also unsettling for many was the sight of the fatigue-wearing men carrying AR-15 rifles who descended on the city to form protective perimeters around the white nationalists for the […]
Twitter/@CBS19news A small group of white nationalists led by Richard Spencer marched through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Saturday evening, local media outlets reported. The group, carrying the same tiki torches they held in the now-infamous August rally, chanted “you will not replace us” and “we will be back” in front of […]
Vice News A Republican congressman from Arizona suggested that a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August was organized by an “Obama sympathizer” and backed by financier George Soros in an interview that aired Thursday evening. Rep. Paul Gosar told Vice News that the Antifa group — short for anti-fascist — was responsible for the outbreak of […]
Congress has passed a joint resolution “condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack” in Charlottesville, Virginia, in early August, and urging President Donald Trump and his administration to combat white supremacist groups. The bill now heads to Trump’s desk to sign, after it passed the House unanimously on Tuesday evening. The Senate also passed the […]
