One dead after car plows into protesters as state of emergency is announced in Virginia, Metro News
One dead after car plows into protesters as state of emergency is announced in Virginia
One person has died after a car plowed into a group of protesters just two hours after a state of emergency was proclaimed in Charlottesville, Virginia, today.
Violence erupted ahead of a large march by white supremacists.
At least nineteen people have been injured in the clashes at the University of Virginia ahead of the planned Unite the Right rally at Emancipation Park.
A hospital official says one person has died after being hit by the car.
University of Virginia Medical Center spokeswoman Angela Taylor confirmed the death to The Associated Press.
The mayor of Charlottesville said on Twitter on Saturday that he is ‘heartbroken’ to announce that a ‘life has been lost.’ He did not provide details.
Shocking footage shows fighting inbetween dozens of protesters, paint being thrown on them and some of the protesters being pepper-sprayed in the face.
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Violating Movie: Violence pours out in #EmancipationPark inbetween KKK members and counter-protesters in #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/jRgFZ8okin
Police could be heard shouting: ‘We’ll not intervene until given directive to do so.’
Members of the clergy at the local church could be seen linking arms in a bid to block one of the entrances to the park, while alt-right protesters chanted ‘White lives matter’ as they marched through.
The mayor has condemned the march as a ‘parade of hatred’.
Pictures from the protests last night demonstrated white supremacists holding torches in the air and chanting slogans such as ‘one people, one nation, end immigration’ as they clashed with anti-fascism protesters.
— Maine Very first Media (@MaineFirstMedia) August 12, 2017
Traci Blackmon, a black woman who was inwards the church in Charlottesville, Virginia, described the fear of those people inwards.
Writing on Twitter, she said: ‘They are coming for the church! Police all around. They won’t let us go outside. . Y’all these KKK are marching with torches!’
Response teams from Richmond are presently at the scene as well as the Virginia National Guard.
The rally comes after a federal judge granted a improvised injunction, permitting the Unite the Right rally to be held at Emancipation Park.
The judge made the decision around 8pm last night.