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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]
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.
On June 1, 2020, the Richmond, Virginia chapter of Our Revolution called for Stoney and Chief William C. Smith to resign in regards to their handling of the protests. [ 72 ] Several statewide politicians, including Jennifer McClellan and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring , condemned the use of the Richmond Police's use of tear gas on ...
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.
A Virginia man who drove into a crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators in June and was described as a local Ku Klux Klan leader by a prosecutor was sentenced Monday to six years in jail.
In May 2024, peaceful pro-Palestinian student protesters at the University of Virginia (UVa) demonstrated on the campus. The protesters organized an anti-war occupation on university grounds in support of Palestinian nationalism in the context of the mass death and displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians during the Israel–Hamas war.
The Washington Post described the protests as a "joint effort among civil rights, racial and social justice and reproductive health organizations," highlighting the event’s "diverse mix of people."
The following monuments and memorials were removed during the George Floyd protests, mainly due to their connections to racism.The majority are in the United States and mostly commemorate the Confederate States of America (CSA), but some monuments were also removed in other countries, for example the statues of slave traders in the United Kingdom.