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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.
The August 11–12 Unite the Right rally was organized by Charlottesville native and white supremacist Jason Kessler [6] [49] to protest the Charlottesville City Council's decision to remove the Robert E. Lee statue honoring the Confederate general, as well as the renaming of the statue's eponymous park (renamed to Emancipation Park in June ...
On the night of November 13, 2022, a mass shooting took place at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which three people were killed and two others were injured. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Four of the victims, including the three who died, were members of the UVA football team . [ 3 ]
Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer condemned the protest, which he called as "cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance march down the lawns of the architect of our Bill of Rights."
She was last seen early in the morning that day, at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. [6] Five weeks later, her remains were discovered on an abandoned property in nearby Albemarle County. [7] Jesse Matthew pleaded guilty to murdering Graham and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was also found guilty and given three ...
During the first 2024 presidential debate, Biden hit at Trump for saying there were “fine people on both sides” of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia.
At the time he was taken into federal custody, he was serving a five-year sentence for his actions in Charlottesville, but 4.5 years of that sentence were suspended and he ended up only doing four ...
Lee sculpture covered in black tarpaulin following the Unite the Right rally of 2017. The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller located in Charlottesville, Virginia's Market Street Park (formerly Emancipation Park, and before that Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District.