A dark moment in U.S. history is set to be revisited when a federal civil trial begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a violent 2017 white nationalist rally that ended with an alleged neo-Nazi ramming his car into counterprotesters.
The rally and death of protester Heather Heyer were wakeup calls for law enforcement to the threat of white supremacist domestic terrorists.A dark moment in U.S. history is set to be revisited when a federal civil trial begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a violent 2017that ended with an alleged neo-Nazi ramming his car into counterprotesters, killing one and injuring more than 30.
Fields also pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes in a deal his attorneys worked out with prosecutors to spare him the death penalty. The trial will mark the first major civil suit to be tried under the Enforcement Act of 1871, which is also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act and passed by Congress in response to a wave of terrorist violence against African Americans in the South.
Kessler and Spencer both denied the allegations that they helped instigate the violence in their responses to the lawsuit.
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