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Virginia State Police were asked to help with enforcement, the university said. It was the latest clash in several tense and sometimes violent weeks at colleges and universities around the country that have seen dozens of protests and hundreds of arrests at demonstrations over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
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 ...
Virginia Beach: On May 31, a protest in Virginia Beach started out peacefully, but ended in violence and vandalism as protesters smashed windows and looted shops on the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. At least 48 businesses sustained around $300,000 worth of damage. Police sprayed tear gas on protesters and made 19 arrests. [75]
During the early morning hours of June 15, a protest was held outside of the Richmond Police Headquarters against the police brutality exhibited by the RPD over the previous two weeks. Police shot protesters with non-lethal bullets and tear gas. [55] The next day, June 16, Chief William Smith of the Richmond Police resigned at the request of ...
At least 50 cities in Virginia reported protests and demonstrations beginning May 28. In Richmond, there were major protests since May 28, with clashes with police, defacing of Confederate monuments and a curfew declared on May 31, with tear gas being used by the police on demonstrators on June 1.
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 works of art.
Current President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump were crowned victors in the Virginia primary election Tuesday, as the nation continues its slow and steady march toward rematch of the ...
Within an hour, at 11:22 a.m., the Virginia State Police declared the rally to be an unlawful assembly. [24] At around 1:45 p.m., self-identified white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 m) away from the rally site, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 35 people.