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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
Police have estimated that between 2,000 and 6,000 protesters and counter-protesters may descend on Charlottesville for Saturday's rally, and an earlier protest held in July saw clashes between ...
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 ...
[7] [22] On the morning of August 12, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency and the Virginia State Police declared the assembly unlawful. [18] At around 1:45 p.m., a white supremacist rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters near the rally site and fled the scene, killing one person and injuring 19.
The Charlottesville demonstration had not yet officially begun when fights between protesters and counter-protesters forced police to shut the event down. Local state of emergency declared after ...