Charlottesville, Virginia, became a flash point as tensions grew in August 2017 over the fate of American monuments that liberals deemed too racist to leave standing in public spaces.
A hodgepodge of protesters and counterprotesters — which included radical leftists, those opposed to removing Confederate statues, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists — descended on the city ahead of the so-called Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12.
Agitators helped ensure that the event went sideways.
‘Trigger the violence because you can’t stop the legitimate speech.’
Following a series of skirmishes between various factions, one demonstrator drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, injuring over 30 and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
According to the grand jury indictment filed against the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday, this bloody and tragic
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