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Best Gift Ever: Charlottesville to Celebrate End of Slavery Instead of Thomas Jefferson's Birthday
For the first time since World War II, guess who won’t be getting a birthday party in Charlottesville, Va.? If you guessed Thomas Jefferson—the same guy who once wrote “all men are created equal,” yet somehow owned over 600 of our ancestors—you’d be correct. The Washington Post reports that despite Jefferson’s name being on everything…
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Put Under the Jail: Charlottesville Murderer James Alex Fields Jr. Gets Life Plus 419 Years
So, Charlottesville rally murderer James Alex Fields Jr. apparently will never, ever, ever be seeing the light of day again as a free man. That’s the basic reality for the 22-year-old white supremacist, who got handed a sentence of life plus 419 years for mowing down Heather Heyer and injuring dozens more with his car…
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Dayton, Ohio Officials Fear Town Becoming a New Charlottesville Ahead of Rally Saturday by Group Tied to the Ku Klux Klan
An offshoot of the homegrown terror group the Ku Klux Klan is headed to the city of Dayton, Ohio, to rally Saturday, and city officials are urging folks to stay away, concerned they’ll have another Charlottesville on their hands. Charlottesville, Va., was the site of a violent clash two years ago between white supremacists and…
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White Supremacist Leader and One of His Minions Plead Guilty to Inciting Violence at Charlottesville, Va., Riot
The leader of a group of California-based white supremacists and one of his members pleaded guilty Friday to charges connected with the deadly violence at the Charlottesville, Va., “Unite the Right” rally two years ago. Benjamin Drake Daley, a founder of the white supremacist Rise Above Movement, and member Michael Miselis pleaded guilty inside a…
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Charlottesville, Va., Attacker Pleads Guilty to 29 Federal Hate Crimes
On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his car into a crowd that was peacefully protesting the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., injuring 28 people and killing 32-year-old activist Heather Heyer. Nearly two years later, Fields, the white supremacist who was convicted of murder in that deadly car attack on…
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Jury Recommends White Supremacist James Alex Fields Spend Life Behind Bars for Charlottesville Attack
A Virginia jury recommended a life sentence for James Alex Fields, the avowed neo-Nazi who killed Heather Heyer when he drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year. Fields was convicted of first-degree murder last Friday, along with nine more charges including malicious wounding…
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White Nationalist Accused of Driving His Car Into a Crowd and Killing Heather Heyer Claims It Was Self-Defense
The Ohio man charged with driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at last year’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and causing the death of Heather Heyer plans to argue that he was acting in self-defense at the time. James Alex Fields Jr., 21, faces 10 state charges including first-degree murder and malicious…
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Trial Begins for White Supremacist Suspect in Deadly Charlottesville Car Attack. Can It Bring Justice?
The trial process for the man who allegedly drove a car through a crowd of counterprotesters, killing activist Heather Heyer, 32, during last year’s Charlottesville, Virginia, “Unite the Right” rally, is beginning Monday. James Alex Fields Jr., 21, is facing “a first-degree murder charge, multiple charges of malicious wounding and assault and separate federal hate…
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Members of California White Supremacist Group Charged in Connection With 2017 Charlottesville Riot
The U.S. Department of Justice has arrested and charged four members of a violent, racist, white supremacist group from California with traveling to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., with the explicit purpose of inciting a riot and attacking counter-protesters. The U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Virginia said in a press…
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Man Convicted of Punching 'Unite the Right's' Jason Kessler Ordered to Pay a Whopping $1 Fine
You read that right. A Charlottesville, Va. jury did agree with a judge’s ruling that a local man was guilty of assault and battery after punching Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler in the head. That same jury also recommended that the man in question, 50-year-old Jeffrey Matthew Winder, serve zero jail time and shell…