#UNITE THE RIGHT RALLY TRIAL#

#UNITE THE RIGHT RALLY TRIAL#

in 2018, Jason Kessler, the organizer of the first, fatal Unite the Right rally. In Charlottesville, Va., the trial of far-right extremists associated with 2017's Unite the Right rally has begun. A crowd erupted in applause as both statues came down. driven from Maumee, Ohio, to join the hate group rally. “Stonewall” Jackson statue was also removed from what is now known as Court Square Park. Ultimately, the Lee statue was taken down in 2021 and the park was renamed again to Market Street Park.

The next day, the Unite the Right rally was met by counter- protests and. The pair of votes and debate around the statues set off a chain of events that started with “Unite the Right” organizer Jason Kessler applying for a permit for the rally in May 2017, according to the federal lawsuit.Īt the time, other Southern cities had already removed dozens of Confederate symbols and monuments from public property after a self-described White supremacist massacred nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. The city’s actions inspired a group of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and related groups to schedule the Unite the Right rally for the weekend of Aug. The rally was ostensibly held to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate. In April 2017, city council voted to remove the statue and two months later voted to rename the park Emancipation Park. More than four years later, a civil trial will determine whether the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who organized the demonstrations should be held. Rally participants chanted anti-Semitic, Nazi-associated phrases and clashed with counterprotesters.

11 and 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, where white nationalists protested the city’s decision to remove a statue of Lee. Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesĬharlottesville was once home to a statue of Confederate Gen. The 'Unite the Right' rally took place Aug. The jury in the civil trial against the organizers of a two-day Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, finished their first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. Lee stands in the center of the former Lee Park on August 22, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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