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☆ Robert E. Lee Statue That Prompted Deadly Protest in Virginia Melted Down
  + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Associated Press | Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new works of art. The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, a Charlottesville-based Black history museum, said Thursday that the statue had been destroyed. Protests over the plan to remove the statue morphed into the violent “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. At a news conference Thursday, heritage center officials said they now plan to solicit proposals on how to repurpose the statue. “Our efforts have been not to remove history but bear witness to the truths about our racist pasts and our aspirations for a more equitable future,” said Andrea Douglas, director of the heritage center.
Persons: Confederate, Robert E, Lee, James Alex Fields Jr, Hitler, Heather Heyer, ”, Andrea Douglas Organizations: Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville City Locations: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Charlottesville
☆ Charlottesville: Multiple people charged with burning objects with the 'intent to intimidate' on day of 2017 White nationalist march
  + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
“There’s a law, a burning objects law, that says they can be prosecuted but our prosecutor’s not doing that.”CNN has reached out to Tracci for comment. Dykes, who was arrested on Friday, and Smith, who was arrested in early January, are both in custody. The separate crime Smith has been charged with carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The demonstration at UVA was followed by a “Unite the Right” rally held the next day in downtown Charlottesville that turned violent and later deadly. Counter-protestor Heather Heyer was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters gathered to oppose the gathering of White nationalist and other right-wing groups.
☆ The Paradox of Prosecuting Domestic Terrorism
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( James Verini | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +52 min
The preventive approach to domestic terrorism goes back even further than the 1990s and it begins with the basic police work and surveillance of the joint terrorism task forces. In fact, there is no section of the U.S. Criminal Code that criminalizes domestic terrorism as such. The absence of clear law around domestic terrorism, and the imperatives of prevention, mean that investigators and prosecutors who work domestic terrorism cases must focus on more common charges: weapons violations, illegal drug possession, burglary, aiding and abetting and so forth. But this was not enough to overrule the fear of domestic terrorism that was gripping the nation and that hung in the courtroom. It reflected the legal paradoxes of the case and domestic terrorism law in general or, maybe more accurately, the absence of it.
☆ U.S. judge cuts damages imposed on organizers of 2017 'Unite the Right' rally
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/4] White nationalists participate in a torch-lit march on the grounds of the University of Virginia ahead of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie KeithJan 4 (Reuters) - A federal judge cut by millions of dollars damages that were imposed on organizers of the 2017 "Unite the Right" white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, citing a cap imposed under a local law. In November 2021, a federal jury found the organizers of the "Unite the Right" rally liable for injuries sustained by counter-protesters and awarded about $24 million in punitive damages and $2 million in compensatory damages. U.S. District Judge Norman Moon, however, ordered that the $24 million in punitive damages be reduced to $350,000, Virginia's statutory cap on punitive damages, according to a court filing of his opinion dated Dec. 30 and released on Wednesday. The rally followed months of protests over the city's plan to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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