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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.
He was tried and convicted in Virginia state court of first-degree murder, malicious wounding, and other crimes in 2018, with the jury recommending a sentence of life imprisonment plus 419 years. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] The following year, Fields pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes in a plea agreement to avoid the death penalty in this trial.
At least three people are dead, including a 32-year-old woman after white nationalists and counter-protesters clashed in Charlottesville. 3 dead, dozens others injured after clashes at white ...
[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.
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 ...
After Charlottesville refused to approve another march, Unite the Right held an anniversary rally on August 11–12, 2018, called "Unite the Right 2", in Washington, D.C. [45] The rally drew only 20–30 protesters amidst thousands of counter-protesters, [46] including religious organizations, civil rights groups, and anti-fascist organizers.
Columbia University’s anti-Israel protesters have a knack for making any moment about them — even Veterans Day. On Monday afternoon, a gaggle of keffiyeh-clad Ivy Leaguers congregated in the ...
On August 29, 2020, Aaron Danielson, an American supporter of the far-right group Patriot Prayer, [1] [2] was shot and killed by a far-left activist after participating in a caravan which drove through Portland, Oregon, displaying banners and signs supporting President Donald Trump, [3] and clashing with participants in the local George Floyd protests.