Charlottesville car attack | |
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Location | Bagian selatan Downtown Mall, Charlottesville, Virginia |
Date | August 12, 2017 1:45 p.m. (UTC-4) |
Attack type | Vehicle-ramming attack, attempted mass murder, domestic terrorism |
Weapons | 2010 Dodge Challenger |
Deaths | 1 (Heather Heyer) |
Injured | 28 |
Perpetrator | James Alex Fields J |
Motive |
On August 12, 2017, a car crashed into a group of people at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heather Heyer died and 19 others were injured. James Alex Fields Jr. was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. He had previously expressed neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs.[1][2]
During the 2020 George Floyd protests, the United States Marine Corps made a rule against showing the Confederate flag at their bases. In the announcement, they said "events like the violence in Charlottesville in 2017 highlight the divisiveness the use of the Confederate battle flag has on our society." [3][4]
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