As a result of the collision of a car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville (Virginia) one person was killed and 19 were injured. About it reports local TV station NBC29.
On 12 August in the city centre, a car drove into demonstrators protesting against the shares of the “Unity of right”, which involved neo-Nazis. Driver at high speed rammed the people, and then tried to escape. He was detained by the police, his actions are qualified as murder, said in his Twitter reporter Henry Graff.
On the eve of the ultra-right held in Charlottesville torchlight procession, demanding from the city authorities to abandon plans to demolish the monument to General Robert Edward Lee (party civil war between the North and the South of the USA) who fought for the Confederacy.
After the procession in the district erupted in riots, which injured 15 people.