Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new ...
Protests over the plan to remove the statue morphed into the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in […] The post Robert E. Lee statue that prompted deadly protest in ...
Donald Trump on Thursday claimed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “nothing” compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests, the latest instance in which ...
The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack [12] perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35.
The August 11–12 Unite the Right rally was organized by Charlottesville native and white supremacist Jason Kessler [6] [49] to protest the Charlottesville City Council's decision to remove the Robert E. Lee statue honoring the Confederate general, as well as the renaming of the statue's eponymous park (renamed to Emancipation Park in June ...
Nine Charlottesville residents—including some injured during the rally—filed suit on October 11, 2017 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. [46] [43] The case was named for the lead plaintiff, Elizabeth Sines, who was a law student at the University of Virginia at the time of the rally. [46]
Get breaking news and the latest headlines on business, entertainment, politics, world news, tech, sports, videos and much more from AOL
A federal judge has slashed millions of dollars from the damages a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay for their role in the violence that erupted during the deadly ...