Unite the Right Rally

Unite the Right rally var en högerextrem demonstration i Charlottesville i Virginia, den 11–12 augusti 2017. Bland arrangörsgrupper och enskilda deltagare återfanns företrädare för vit makt, vit nationalism, alt-right, nykonfederationen, nynazism och milisgrupper. Talare under sammankomsten var bland andra Tim Treadstone, David Duke, Richard B. Spencer, Mike Enoch och Michael Hill.^[1]^[2]

Samtidigt som den högerextrema träffen pågick plöjde en bil rakt in i en samling antifascistiska motdemonstranter varvid en person dog och minst 24 skadades.^[3] Vittnen på plats beskrev att våldet som uppstod härrörde från de vita nationalisterna.^[4]

^ ”Charlottesville Groups Send Out 'Call to Action' Against Upcoming Rally” (på engelska). Arkiverad från originalet den augusti 7, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170807192054/http://www.nbc29.com/story/35996322/charlottesville-groups-send-out-call-to-action-against-upcoming-rally. Läst 7 augusti 2017.
^ ”The Alt-Right Goes Panhandling”. gizmodo.com. http://gizmodo.com/the-alt-right-goes-panhandling-1797465499/amp.
^ KTRK. ”Officials: White nationalist rally linked to 3 deaths”. Officials: White nationalist rally linked to 3 deaths. abc13.com. http://abc13.com/1-dead-19-injured-in-violent-car-attack-at-virginia-rally/2300470/. Läst 12 augusti 2017. ”car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person, hurting at least two dozen more”
^ ”Unite the Right: White supremacists rally in Virginia”. www.aljazeera.com. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/unite-white-supremacists-rally-virginia-170812142356688.html.

[1] ”Charlottesville Groups Send Out 'Call to Action' Against Upcoming Rally” (på engelska). Arkiverad från originalet den augusti 7, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170807192054/http://www.nbc29.com/story/35996322/charlottesville-groups-send-out-call-to-action-against-upcoming-rally. Läst 7 augusti 2017.

[2] ”The Alt-Right Goes Panhandling”. gizmodo.com. http://gizmodo.com/the-alt-right-goes-panhandling-1797465499/amp.

[two_dozen-3] KTRK. ”Officials: White nationalist rally linked to 3 deaths”. Officials: White nationalist rally linked to 3 deaths. abc13.com. http://abc13.com/1-dead-19-injured-in-violent-car-attack-at-virginia-rally/2300470/. Läst 12 augusti 2017. ”car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person, hurting at least two dozen more”

[4] ”Unite the Right: White supremacists rally in Virginia”. www.aljazeera.com. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/unite-white-supremacists-rally-virginia-170812142356688.html.

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