Category: Charlottesville

Civil Jury Finds ‘Unite the Right’ Rally Organizers Responsible for 2017 Charlottesville Violence

November 24, 2021
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After a civil trial, a federal jury in Virginia ordered organizers of the ill-fated “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville to pay 9 plaintiffs more than $20 million in compensatory and punitive damages for physical and emotional injuries. The case in Sines v. Kessler, civil action 3:17-cv-72, was heard in the U.S. District Court for…

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University of Virginia Removes Statue of Revolutionary War Officer

July 12, 2021
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In the latest addition to a list of historical monuments removed from the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, a statue of pioneer and Revolutionary War officer George Rogers Clark on Sunday left its pedestal on the University of Virginia (UVA) campus. George Rogers Clark was born in Albemarle County, where the UVA sits, in 1752. Dubbed…

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Charlottesville Removes Confederate Robert E. Lee Statue

July 10, 2021
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A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, nearly four years after protests over plans to remove it led to clashes in which a woman was run down by a car and killed. Shortly after the removal of the Lee statue, a statue of Confederate General Thomas…

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Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of 2 Charlottesville Rioters

June 14, 2021
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction of two members of a group billing itself as the “premier MMA (mixed martial arts) club of the Alt-Right” but that one extremist watchdog described as a “racist fight club” whose members engaged in violent acts at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The…

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