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Mother of Charlottesville Car Attack Victim Heather Heyer Sues Murderer
The mother of a woman killed when a man rammed his car through a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is suing the convicted murderer for wrongful death. Susan Bro filed a $12 million lawsuit Aug. 30 against the 22-year-old attacker, who is now serving life sentences plus 419 years on numerous convictions. The Daily Progress reports...
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Man Gets Second Life Sentence, 419 Years for Charlottesville Car Attack
A man convicted of federal hate crime charges for deliberately slamming his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been sentenced to life in prison on state charges.
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Man Convicted in Charlottesville Car Attack Asks for ‘Mercy'
The avowed white supremacist who plowed his car into counterdemonstrators opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia two years ago, killing one person and injuring dozens, has asked a judge for mercy and a sentence shorter than life in prison.
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Man Convicted in Charlottesville Car Attack Asks for ‘Mercy'
The avowed white supremacist who plowed his car into counterdemonstrators opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia two years ago, killing one person and injuring dozens, has asked a judge for mercy and a sentence shorter than life in prison.
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Man Changes Plea to Guilty on Hate Crime Charges in Charlottesville Car Attack
A man convicted on state murder charges in a deadly car attack at a white nationalist rally in Virginia pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime charges in a case that stirred racial tensions across the country.
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Jury Recommends Life Sentence for White Nationalist Who Drove Into Va. Crowd
Jurors in the trial of a man convicted of murder for driving his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally have recommended that he spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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Jury Deliberates Sentence for White Nationalist Who Drove Into Va. Crowd
Jurors say they need another day to determine a sentence for a man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally last year in Virginia, killing a woman and severely injuring many others.
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Jury Finds White Nationalist Guilty of Murder for Plowing Into Crowd of Counterprotesters in Charlottesville
An Ohio man who drove into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia last year, killing one woman, was found guilty of first-degree murder and all other counts.
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Man in Dramatic Photo Testifies at Virginia White Nationalist Trial
A man whose image was captured in a dramatic photo as he was struck by a car during a white nationalist rally in Virginia has given emotional testimony at the trial of the man accused of deliberately plowing into the crowd.
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Man Charged in White Nationalist Rally Killing to Argue Self-Defense
An Ohio man charged with killing a woman during a white nationalist rally in Virginia plans to argue that he believed he was acting in self-defense when he drove his car into a crowd of counter protesters.
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Trial Set to Begin in Deadly White Nationalist Rally
A planned “Unite the Right” rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville exploded in chaos: violent brawling in the streets, racist chants, smoke bombs, and finally, a car speeding into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one and injuring dozens more. Afterward, President Donald Trump enflamed racial tensions when he said “both sides” were to blame, a comment some saw as a...
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Charlottesville Driver to Face Federal Hate Crime Charges
Federal hate crime charges have been filed against a man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman and injuring dozens more.
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Man Accused of Charlottesville Attack Charged With 1st-Degree Murder
A young man accused of ramming a car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, faces a court hearing Thursday on charges including second-degree murder.
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White Nationalists Return to Charlottesville for Another Tiki-Torch Rally
White nationalist Richard Spencer led a demonstration Saturday night of tiki torch-wielding protesters in a Charlottesville, Virginia, park where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stands, police said. The group of about 50 walked into the park after arriving in a tour bus at about 7:40 p.m. and stayed for about 10 minutes, Charlottesville police said. The group...
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Man Wanted in Charlottesville Beating of Black Man Arrested in Georgia
A man accused of beating a black man during the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month has been arrested in Georgia.
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‘No Hate in Our City': Thousands Flood San Francisco in March Against White Supremacy, Fascism, ‘Alt-Right'
Alamo Square Park was originally meant to be the site of a Saturday news conference by right-wing group, Patriot Prayer, but the neighborhood was instead inundated with hundreds of counter-protesters, whose resounding message was summed up in one sign: “Goodnight alt-right.”
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18-Year-Old Charged in Charlottesville Beating of Black Man With Pipes, Sticks
An 18-year-old has been arrested in the brutal beating of a black man during the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month, and a second suspect is wanted by police.
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White Nationalist Accused of UVa. Attack Denied Bond
A white nationalist who says he pepper-sprayed a demonstrator in self-defense on the campus of the University of Virginia was denied bond at a court hearing Thursday. Christopher Cantwell of Keene, New Hampshire, was taken into custody at the police department in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was transported from a regional jail in Lynchburg to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail in Charlottesville...
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Violence in Charlottesville Leads to Soul-Searching at ACLU
Faced with an angry backlash for defending white supremacists’ right to march in Charlottesville, the American Civil Liberties Union is confronting a feeling among some of its members that was once considered heresy: Maybe some speech isn’t worth defending. Cracks in the ACLU’s strict defense of the First Amendment no matter how offensive the speech opened from the moment a...
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White Nationalist Accused of UVa. Attack Says He'll Turn Himself in
University of Virginia police say Christopher Cantwell of Keene, New Hampshire, is wanted on three felony charges: two counts of the illegal use of tear gas or other gases and one count of malicious bodily injury with a “caustic substance,” explosive or fire.