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CHARLOTTESVILLE — A man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of activists here — killing one person and injuring 19 — long sympathized with Nazi views and had stood with a group of white supremacists hours before Saturday’s bloody crash. The alleged driver, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old who traveled to Virginia…
Photo via Deandre Harris Twenty-year old aspiring hip-hop artist Deandre Harris moved to Charlottesville, Va., from Suffolk, Va., two years ago for a job opportunity as an Instructional Assistant in the special education program at a local high school. But nothing could prepare him for what he experienced Saturday afternoon, when he took part in…
‘We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.” Such was President Trump’s statement Saturday on the violence in Charlottesville, Va. Really: That was it. Yet “many sides” didn’t drive a car into a crowd, an evident act of terrorism that killed Heather…
close story-meta Photo President Trump met with Merck’s chief executive, Kenneth C. Frazier, second from left, and other leaders of the pharmaceutical industry, at the White House in January. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times President Trump is facing heated criticism over not publicly condemning white nationalists for inciting this weekend’s bloody confrontation in Charlottesville,…
First Person Photographer behind graphic Charlottesville image recounts near-death experience August 13, 2017 1195 words Photo/Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress Ryan Kelly went to downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12 for one last assignment before leaving his staff photographer job at The Daily Progress. On that final workday, the 30-year-old captured an…
Yes, you can blame the Nazis. The race-fueled chaos that wracked Charlottesville, Virginia, finally came to rest on Sunday night. And the hundreds of people who spent the weekend fighting in streets — and the millions who watched them — began what has become a new American ritual: arguing about what really happened, and what…
close story-meta Photo Riots broke out between alt-right and white supremacist demonstrators and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. Credit Edu Bayer for The New York Times Charlottesville, Va. — The college town of Charlottesville, Va. became the scene of deadly chaos after a rally to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E….
A pseudonymous Twitter account is crowdsourcing the names of people who attended a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — and trying to get them fired from their jobs. The rally, which began Friday as an ostensible protest against the removal of a statue depicting Confederate General Robert E. Lee, turned deadly on Saturday. A…
Photo: Getty Images A 20-year-old University of Nevada, Reno student who was caught on camera carrying torches alongside other white supremacists at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia is backpedaling furiously now that his identity has been exposed. Channel 2 News reports that after the photo of Peter Cvjetanovic screaming while holding the torch went viral,…
Mary didn’t realize what was happening until the car hit her. “It came so fast I didn’t really see what happened, but I saw people’s bodies flying,” she told The Daily Beast from outside Charlottesville, Virginia. “The car hit me in the leg. … It cut through to the bone.” Mary, a 19-year-old college student,…