charlottesville attack
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When Black Lives Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back!
It seemed like the “alt-right” got the memo that spewing hateful rhetoric and inciting violence like we saw last year in Charlottesville, Va., only further marginalizes them. The few neo-Nazis, white nationalists and sympathizers who were present at the Unite the Right 2 March were completely dwarfed and drowned out by thousands of counter-protesters. Black…
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I Spent the Whole Unite the Right 2 Weekend Looking for Nazis and Ended Up at the White House
Last weekend was the one-year anniversary of the white nationalist Unite the Right terrorist attacks on Charlottesville, Va., and to celebrate, white nationalist leader Jason Kessler decided to do a remix and hold Unite the Right 2, in Washington, D.C. As a University of Virginia alumni and a resident of the vast suburban sprawl that…
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A Year Later: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville Explores the Growing White Nationalist Movement in America
As the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right rally approaches, many still cannot wrap their minds around the hundreds if not thousands of white supremacist sympathizers who descended on a bucolic college town and wrecked violent havoc—one anti-racism protester was killed, dozens more were hospitalized—in the year of our Lord 2017. Many…
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Driver Who Allegedly Killed 1, Injured 35, in Charlottesville, Va., Charged With Federal Hate Crimes
James Alex Fields Jr., the white supremacist accused of killing anti-racism protester Heather Heyer at last year’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., was charged with multiple counts of federal hate crimes on Wednesday. The Justice Department charged Fields with one hate crime act that led to the death of Heyer, 32, who was counterprotesting…
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‘White Civil Rights’ Rally Coming to DC After National Park Service Approves Application
On the first-year anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., history is set to repeat itself, with hundreds of people expected to gather in the nation’s capital for a White Civil Rights rally. According to WUSA-TV, the National Park Service has approved an application for a White Civil Rights…
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Couple Who Survived Charlottesville, Va., Attack Get Dream Wedding and Honor Heather Heyer
Everyone recalls that disaster of a Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Va., last year, when a raging white supremacist used the tried-and-true terror tactic of driving a moving vehicle into a crowd of people, throwing one person up into the air and eventually killing another. What many may not know is that the man…
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Active-Duty Marine Moonlights as Leader of Violent White Supremacist Group: Report
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over…
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Alex Michael Ramos Found Guilty of Malicious Wounding in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage Beating of DeAndre Harris
White supremacist Alex Michael Ramos has been found guilty of malicious wounding in the August parking lot beating of DeAndre Harris in Charlottesville, Va. According to WVIR-TV, Ramos, who now faces five to 20 years in prison, was one of several men who were identified thanks to social media during the Unite the Right rally…
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White Supremacist Jacob Scott Goodwin Guilty in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage Attack of DeAndre Harris
A white supremacist is now looking at 10 years behind bars for his role in the Charlottesville, Va., parking lot attack on DeAndre Harris. Jacob Scott Goodwin, 23, of Ward, Ark., was found guilty of malicious wounding in the August attack on 20-year-old Harris. The Associated Press reports that on Tuesday, Goodwin tried to convince…
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Watch: Travis Reinking and the Invisible White Man
This week, another white guy with guns went on a rampage and senselessly killed innocent victims. On April 22, 2018, Travis Reinking entered a Tennessee Waffle House wearing only a jacket, killed four people and escaped butt naked. After a 24-hour manhunt that involved more than 160 officers, he was finally captured. Reinking had many…