deliberately rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters about a 1⁄ 2 mile (800 m) away from the rally site, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 35 other people. At around 1:45 p.m., self-identified white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. Within an hour, at 11:22 a.m., the Virginia State Police declared the rally to be an unlawful assembly. On the morning of August 12, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency, stating that public safety could not be safeguarded without additional powers. The rally turned violent after protesters clashed with counter-protesters, resulting in more than 30 injured. The rally occurred amid the controversy generated by the removal of Confederate monuments by local governments following the Charleston church shooting in 2015, where a white supremacist shot and killed nine black members, including the minister (a state senator), and wounded others. Lee from Charlottesville's former Lee Park. The organizers' stated goals included the unification of the American white nationalist movement and opposing the proposed removal of the statue of General Robert E.

Some groups chanted racist and antisemitic slogans and carried weapons, Nazi and neo-Nazi symbols, the Valknut, Confederate battle flags, Deus vult crosses, flags, and other symbols of various past and present anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic groups. Far-right groups participated, including self-identified members of the alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and various right-wing militias. The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017.

2 state troopers died in an accidental helicopter crash.

1 counterprotester killed by participant in vehicle-ramming attack.

Various alt-right, neo-Nazi, neo-fascist, white supremacist, white nationalist, Ku Klux Klan, neo-Confederate, Identitarian and other far-right groups

Protest the decision of Charlottesville City Council to order removal of Confederate monuments and memorials from public spaces.

Promotion of white supremacist, alt-right, neo-Nazi, and white nationalist ideologies.

Rally participants preparing to enter Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, carrying Neo-Confederate flags, Confederate battle flags, Gadsden flags, a Nazi flag, and a flag depicting Mjölnir

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