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In Charlottesville on Saturday, I witnessed a brutal, calculated act of terror. A young man fueled by hatred drove into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the white supremacist groups that marched through our streets carrying lit torches and armed with assault weapons. As one life has been taken, and many more injured, I am…
Saturday’s terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia that left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead and 19 people wounded was committed using a car. Almost immediately, Charlottesville police spread speculation (with the help of a reporter at The Hill, whose tweets about it have now been deleted) that the driver was “scared” when he plowed into a group…
Journalists covering the racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia face challenges as they choose words, images and sounds. This is not a time to sanitize the cost of hate, and it is not a time to glorify hate groups by giving them the notoriety they seek. We have both covered hate groups including the Ku Klux…
“You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation toward the most serious charges that can be brought because this is unequivocally an unacceptable evil attack,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions, shown in April, said on “Good Morning America.” Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on…
Twitter GoDaddy no longer wants to host the Daily Stormer on its servers. The known white supremacist site angered the hosting company after it posted a defamatory post mocking the death and appearance of Heather Heyer, the woman killed at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. On Sunday, GoDaddy posted on…
react-text: 248 On Saturday, at /react-text react-text: 249 a Charlottesville rally populated by alt-right activists and white supremacists, a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring 19 and /react-text react-text: 251 killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer /react-text react-text: 252 . The man arrested in connection with the murder, James Alex Fields, Jr., had previously /react-text…
close story-meta Photo Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia spoke on the steps of the First Baptist Church on Sunday, a day after violent protests that stemmed from a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Credit Matt Eich for The New York Times CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister in training at Sojourners United Church of…
On a day when white nationalists marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, and their planned rally escalated into violence that left one dead, President Donald Trump decided to go ahead with a press conference covering veterans’ healthcare. Before signing a bill, Trump did address the situation in Virginia. Earlier in the day he had…
An image being shared online that people are claiming shows a black police officer guarding Saturday’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was actually posted in July. Tim Hogan, who worked for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and is now the national press secretary for a Washington, DC, nonprofit, also shared the image on Saturday with…
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