Four white supremacists admitted that they violently assaulted counter-protesters during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in order to fuel riots.
Four members of a now-defunct California-based white supremacist group called Rise Above Movement have pleaded guilty to federal rioting charges in connection with the rally that sparked violence in the city on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017.
President Trump has twice defended those who marched in Charlottesville with tiki torches, chanting, “Blood and Soil!” and “Jews will not replace us!” and later engaged in violent confrontations during the Unite the Right rally, leading to the death of a counterprotester, Heather Heyer, at the hands of a neo-Nazi.Shortly after the deadly rally, Trumpdefended
“Although the First Amendment protects an organization’s right to express abhorrent political views, it does not authorize senseless violence in furtherance of a political agenda,” US Attorney Thomas T. Cullen said in aRAM regularly held hand-to-hand and other combat training for its members to prepare them to engage in violent confrontations at several purported political rallies and demonstrations in Virginia and California between March and August 2017, federal prosecutors said.
RAM members used tiki torches to strike multiple people during a clash between hundreds of white supremacists and a group of students protesting white supremacy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on the night before the Unite the Right rally.
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