HEATHER HEYER

Plaintiffs are seeking damages for physical and emotional injuries suffered as a result of the violent 2017 Charlottesville rally organized by white supremacists.

A woman who was pushed to safety as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has recounted a scene of “complete terror."

The defendants cited freedom of speech.

A coalition of civil rights groups releasing a report on hate crime laws says the protections against bias-motivated violence are inconsistent and lack uniformity nationally.

A private group is awarding $3 million in grants to more than three dozen groups and sites nationwide to help preserve landmarks linked to Black history.

A Confederate monument that helped spark a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been hoisted off its stone pedestal and hauled away to storage.

A federal judge has ordered a right-wing think tank led by white nationalist Richard Spencer to pay $2.4 million to an Ohio man severely injured during a white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally two years ago in Virginia. Bill Burke, of Athens, Ohio, says he was struck by a car driven by James Alex Fields Jr. — in a crash that killed counterprotester Heather Heyer — during the August 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On Thursday, April 1, 2021, Virginia's highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down this and another statue of a Confederate general. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia's highest court ruled Thursday that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of a violent white nationalist rally in 2017. AdThe Jackson statue was erected in Jackson Park in 1921 and the Lee statue was erected in Lee Park in 1924. The state Supreme Court also ruled that the circuit court erred in ordering the city to pay $365,000 in plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees and costs. University of Virginia law Richard Schragger, who specializes in the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, said he took the position early in the litigation that the law didn’t apply to the Charlottesville statues.

But by the final, frenetic sprint of the 2020 race, the world had long peered into the country's darkest corners and seen a battered and haunted image staring back. The presidency and control of the Senate are in the balance, but for many, there was something even more urgent. “Tuesday is our big deal as a country!” Trump said on Sunday, as he braved flurries and a stiff wind chill in Michigan. In Texas, Trump supporters in cars and trucks swarmed around a Biden campaign bus at high speed on a highway. ___Associated Press writers Alex Jaffe traveling with Biden, Zeke Miller with Trump, and Kathleen Ronayne with Harris contributed to this report.

FILE PHOTO: Virgnia Governor Ralph Northam attends a rally held by gun control activists and the families of shooting victims outside the Virginia State Capitol Building in Richmond, VA, U.S. July 9, 2019. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy/File Photo(Reuters) - Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Wednesday plans to declare a temporary emergency banning all guns and weapons from the area around the Capitol in Richmond ahead of a major gun rights demonstration set for Monday, the Associated Press reported. The governors office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for confirmation. Last week Virginia lawmakers approved a new gun policy prohibiting firearms inside the Capitol and a nearby office building, but did not extend the ban to Capitol Square, the public space outside that includes monuments to prominent Virginians and the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial. One posting included a photo of an AR-15 and said there were great sight angles from certain buildings near Capitol Square, the official said.

Heather Heyer/Facebook/CNN Video(CNN) - Heather Heyer's mother is suing her daughter's imprisoned killer for $12 million -- but she doesn't expect to see a penny. Bro has been keeping herself busy with the Heather Heyer Foundation, she said. She's also joined Haifa Jabara in pushing Congress to enact hate crime legislation in Heyer's and Jabara's son's names. Exactly one year before Heyer's death, Khalid Jabara was murdered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by a man who had been harassing the 37-year-old and his Lebanese family for years. The Jabara-Heyer No Hate Act aims to improve the accuracy of hate crime reporting and provide resources for state hate crime hotlines, among other provisions.

The man convicted of ramming his car into a crowd of protesters killing Heather Heyer and injuring about 30 other people has been sentenced to life in prison.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) - A federal judge imposed a life sentence on the self-described neo-Nazi who killed Heather Heyer by crashing his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white supremacist rally, saying release would be too great a risk.The 22-year-old neo-Nazi, James Fields of Maumee, Ohio, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. He had sought a lesser sentence, apologizing after the court viewed video of him plowing his car into a crowd after the Aug. 12, 2017, Unite the Right rally, also injuring 30 people. Subsequent alt-right gatherings failed to draw crowds the size of the Charlottesville rally. The FBIs most recent report on hate crimes, released in November, showed a 17% rise in 2017. He was photographed hours before the attack carrying a shield with the emblem of a far-right hate group.

REUTERS/Brian SnyderThe 22-year-old neo-Nazi, James Fields of Maumee, Ohio, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. He had sought a lesser sentence, apologizing after the court viewed video of him plowing his car into a crowd after the Aug. 12, 2017, Unite the Right rally, also injuring 19 people. Subsequent alt-right gatherings failed to draw crowds the size of the Charlottesville rally. Ahead of Fridays sentencing hearing, prosecutors noted that Fields had long espoused violent beliefs. He was photographed hours before the attack carrying a shield with the emblem of a far-right hate group.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) - A self-described neo-Nazi wearing prison stripes and the mother of the protestor he killed at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, watched a video at his sentencing hearing on Friday showing his car ramming into the crowd. Two people hug at the site where Heather Heyer was killed on the one-year anniversary of the 2017 white-nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 12, 2018. Subsequent alt-right gatherings failed to draw crowds the size of the Charlottesville rally. Fields was photographed hours before the attack carrying a shield with the emblem of a far-right hate group. Fields already faces life in prison at his state court sentencing next month after being found guilty by a jury of murdering Heyer and wounding others.

(Reuters) - The self-described neo-Nazi convicted of killing Heather Heyer by ramming his car into a crowd protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 will learn on Friday whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Two people hug at the site where Heather Heyer was killed on the one-year anniversary of the 2017 white-nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 12, 2018. An anti-white liberal, Fields said, according to court papers filed by prosecutors. Fields, a resident of Maumee, Ohio, was photographed hours before the attack carrying a shield with the emblem of a far-right hate group. They asked a judge only to sentence him to less than life in prison, without specifying a number, seeking mercy citing his relative youth and history of mental health diagnoses.

An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charges. Fields admitted deliberately driving his car into counterprotesters who showed up to demonstrate against the white nationalists. "I would like to see him change in time from a white supremacist to someone who helps bring others away from white supremacy." According to the testimony, Fields appeared happy when touring the Dachau camp and remarked, "This is where the magic happened." They said he's an avowed white supremacist, admired Adolf Hitler and even kept a picture of the Nazi leader on his bedside table.

An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charges. Fields admitted deliberately driving his car into counterprotesters who showed up to demonstrate against the white nationalists. "I would like to see him change in time from a white supremacist to someone who helps bring others away from white supremacy." According to the testimony, Fields appeared happy when touring the Dachau camp and remarked, "This is where the magic happened." They said he's an avowed white supremacist, admired Adolf Hitler and even kept a picture of the Nazi leader on his bedside table.

Mourners gathered at vigil in Charlottesville, Virginia, following weekend of violence​ that left one woman dead and dozens more hurt