They train to fight. They post their beatings online. And so far, they have little reason to fear the authorities.
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham for ProPublica
It was about 10 a.m. on Aug. 12 when the melee erupted just north of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.
About two dozen white supremacists — many equipped with helmets and
wooden shields — were battling with a handful of counter-protesters,
most of them African American. One white man dove into the violence with
particular zeal. Using his fists and feet, the man attacked one person
after another.
The street fighter was in Virginia on that August morning for the
“Unite the Right” rally, the largest public gathering of white
supremacists in a generation, a chaotic and bloody event that would
culminate, a few hours later, in the killing of 32-year-old Heather
Heyer, who was there to protest the racist rally.
The violence in Charlottesville became national news. President
Donald Trump’s response to it — he asserted there were “some very fine
people on both sides” of the events that day — set off a wave of
condemnations, from his allies as well as his critics.
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