White nationalist guilty of Charlottesville murder – Updated News
The jury deliberated for less than a day before convicting on Friday the 21-year-old of murder and several other charges stemming from the deadly confrontation that occurred after police had declared an unlawful assembly and cleared a park of white supremacists gathered for the “Unite the Right” rally.
Unite the Right, called to oppose Charlottesville’s decision to remove a Confederate statue, was the largest white nationalist rally in the United States in recent times.
Fields’s defence team did not contest that he was behind the wheel of the grey Dodge Challenger when it struck activists who had descended upon the Virginia city to counter a “Unite the Right” rally. But they argued their client was “scared for his life”.
Tags: Charlottesville, Heather Heyer, James Alex Fields Jr, neo-Nazis, U.S, Virginia, White nationalist rally
White nationalist guilty of Charlottesville murder – Updated News
The jury deliberated for less than a day before convicting on Friday the 21-year-old of murder and several other charges stemming from the deadly confrontation that occurred after police had declared an unlawful assembly and cleared a park of white supremacists gathered for the “Unite the Right” rally.
Unite the Right, called to oppose Charlottesville’s decision to remove a Confederat
e statue, was the largest white nationalist rally in the United States in recent times.
Fields’s defence team did not contest that he was behind the wheel of the grey Dodge Challenger when it struck activists who had descended upon the Virginia city to counter a “Unite the Right” rally. But they argued their client was “scared for his life”.
Tags: Charlottesville, Heather Heyer, James Alex Fields Jr, neo-Nazis, U.S, Virginia, White nationalist rally