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Protesters Challenge Charlottesville City Council Over White Nationalist March

Christopher Cantwell — who was featured in a widely viewed documentary by Vice News — was wanted for an incident during clashes between white nationalists and counterprotesters earlier this month in Charlottesville Protesters Challenge Charlottesville City Council Over White Nationalist March
Christy Curtis | 25 August, 2017, 02:14

The meeting wasn't supposed to be about the violence on August 12, but residents and protesters stormed the meeting, forcing Mayor Mike Signer to formally cancel the gathering before fleeing.

Demonstrators stood on the dais and unfurled a large banner that read, "BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS".

The mayor tried to restore order, but as tensions escalated, the meeting was temporarily suspended. The city then chose to shroud Confederate memorial statues in Heyer's memory and start the removal process for one of the statues.

The first Charlottesville, Virginia city council meeting since the deadly attack on counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in the city erupted on Monday night when several residents began shouting down city council members.

The Charlottesville City Council voted to drape two Confederate statues in black fabric during a chaotic meeting packed with irate residents who screamed and cursed at councilors over the city's response to a white nationalist rally.

The encounter soon turned bloody as a 20-year-old suspected Nazi sympathizer smashed his vehicle into the counter-protesters, killing one person and injuring some 20 others. Two Virginia state troopers were killed in a helicopter crash nearby after monitoring events.

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Fields, who has been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes, has been ordered held without bond pending an August 25 hearing. His next court appearance is Friday.

While the city council had an agenda, councilors ultimately chose to listen to people's concerns on the events that led to the death of Heather Heyer and several injuries, according to Newsy.

At one point, meeting attendees chanted "Signer must go!" Mayor Mike Signer said people who spoke out without being recognized would be removed.

"You all let this city down", she said. Police then entered the chambers and detained three people.

When the meeting resumed, speakers one after another berated the council members for not heeding community concerns before the rally.

One woman said her daughter had been among those hit by the driver who plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters. He said that residents had warned city officials that there would be violence if the "Unite the Right" rally was allowed to take place. US District Court Judge Glen Conrad rejected the city's revocation.

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