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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A black man who was severely beaten during a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then charged with misdemeanor assault in the same incident has been found not guilty.

Local news outlets report a Charlottesville judge said Friday it was clear DeAndre Harris didn't intend to harm the man who made a complaint against him.

AndyH wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:01 pm https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-man- ... f-assault/

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A black man who was severely beaten during a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then charged with misdemeanor assault in the same incident has been found not guilty.

Local news outlets report a Charlottesville judge said Friday it was clear DeAndre Harris didn't intend to harm the man who made a complaint against him.

7N6Wolf wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2018 12:18 am

AndyH wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:01 pm https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-man- ... f-assault/

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A black man who was severely beaten during a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then charged with misdemeanor assault in the same incident has been found not guilty.

Local news outlets report a Charlottesville judge said Friday it was clear DeAndre Harris didn't intend to harm the man who made a complaint against him.

The mere fact he was charged in the first place was racist in and of itself.

Bang wrote: Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:33 am What? How could you say that! That nigger looked at a white person funny, he obviously deserved to by lynched! What do you think this is, the 21st century or something?

AndyH wrote: Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:57 am

No words.

Bang wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 10:17 am Ugh. I only made it about 10 minutes in. "I don't agree with every position my son holds, but he did the right thing" translates pretty well to I'm not a racist, but I'm proud I raised my son to be a racist and lynch people. It's not often that I'm truly disgusted by other people, but this is one of those times.

A jury on Tuesday convicted a white supremacist who participated in the brutal beating of a black man in a parking garage during last August’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Jacob Scott Goodwin, a 23-year-old from Arkansas, was found guilty of a malicious wounding charge. The jury of three men and nine women recommended 10 years imprisonment with the option for a suspended sentence, along with a $20,000 fine and a rehabilitation plan for Goodwin. His sentence will be set by a judge on Aug. 23.

Video showing several people attacking DeAndre Harris, 20, went viral in the aftermath of the disastrous Aug. 12 rally that left one counterprotester dead. The men in the video used poles to beat Harris in the garage, which stands next door to the Charlottesville Police Department.

Harris emerged from the assault with his head dripping blood. He suffered a concussion and a broken arm, and required eight staples for his head wound, he told The Root.

Goodwin was shown in the video dressed in militia-style gear, including a helmet, and carrying a large shield.

His lawyer argued that his client feared for his life and had acted in self-defense, alleging it was Harris who picked a fight with the white supremacists. Goodwin testified that he thought he would “probably perish or be sent to the hospital and be terribly hurt” in the moments he faced off with Harris, according to The Washington Post.

But prosecutor Nina-Alice Antony told the jury Goodwin came to the rally “outfitted for battle,” complete with “a full body shield.”

Neither the prosecution nor the defense mentioned Goodwin’s white supremacy affiliation during the trial, the Post reported. During the rally, one of the pins he wore bore the number 88, code for Heil Hitler.


After video of the beating circulated on social media, web sleuths associated with Black Lives Matter spearheaded an effort to identify Harris’ attackers. Goodwin was arrested in October and three others face charges related to the attack.

A warrant was also issued in October for Harris, who was charged with assaulting another of the white supremacists, Harold Ray Crews, moments before Harris was attacked himself. Harris was acquitted in March.

A trial for another man charged in the Harris attack, Alex Michael Ramos of Georgia, is set to begin Wednesday. The trial for the other two, Tyler Watkins Davis of Florida and Daniel Borden of Ohio, will begin this summer.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Federal hate crime charges have been filed against a man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, killing a woman and injuring dozens more. The Department of Justice announced that an indictment returned Wednesday charges 21-year-old James Alex Fields of Ohio with 30 crimes, including one count of a hate crime resulting in the death of Heather Heyer, and 28 other hate crimes involving an attempt to kill other people who were injured...

Fields was also charged with one count of racially motivated violent interference with a federally protected activity, resulting in Heyer's death...

Fields already faces state charges of first-degree murder and other crimes.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -
The man who fired a pistol during a controversial rally in downtown Charlottesville last year will spend four years behind bars.

Fifty-three-year-old Richard Wilson Preston appeared in Charlottesville Circuit Court for sentencing Tuesday, August 21. He had entered a plea of no contest back on May 8, right before a three-day jury trial was to get underway. As a result, the judge found the Baltimore-area man guilty of firing a weapon within 1,000 feet of a school.

Tuesday, Judge Richard Moore handed Preston a sentence of eight years, but with four suspended. The judge had ordered a presentencing report before making his ruling.

Preston, who reportedly has ties to the Ku Klux Klan, fired a single bullet in the direction of Corey Long during the Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017. His attorney claimed Preston was acting in self-defense.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -
The man who used a flame-throwing device during the Unite the Right rally has been found guilty of disorderly conduct...

Long claims he was acting in self-defense on August 12, 2017. The Culpeper-area man says many people were threatening him that day, and he ignited an aerosol can to push them away.

The defense said Long fired off the can when Richard Preston threatened and fired a bullet towards him at Emancipation Park that day.

"He made an ethical decision to stand up against racism and injustice, and sometimes standing up against those decisions you'll be rebuked by the American court system," said Malik Shabazz, Long’s legal adviser.

The commonwealth argued Long's action was dangerous to others, not just Preston.

The judge sentenced Long to 360 days in jail, but suspended all but 20 days. He was also given two years of good behavior and 100 hours of community service.

Four members of a militant white supremacist group from California have been arrested on charges they traveled to Virginia last year to incite a riot and attack counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally that turned deadly. An affidavit unsealed Tuesday says the men are part of the Rise Above Movement.

The affidavit says they attended a torch-lit rally and a larger gathering in downtown Charlottesville the next day where they committed "multiple acts of violence" against counterprotesters.

Court documents say the four men have been arrested and are awaiting their initial hearings. It wasn't immediately clear if they have attorneys who could comment on their behalf.

Charlottesville, Virginia (CNN) — James Alex Fields, who in August 2017 drove a car into a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was convicted Friday of first-degree murder and nine other charges.
Fields, 21, was found guilty in the killing of Heather Heyer and faces a possible sentence of life in prison.

Bisbee wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:05 pm James Fields convicted in Charlottesville death

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/07/us/cha ... cnn.com%2F

Charlottesville, Virginia (CNN) — James Alex Fields, who in August 2017 drove a car into a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was convicted Friday of first-degree murder and nine other charges.
Fields, 21, was found guilty in the killing of Heather Heyer and faces a possible sentence of life in prison.

highdesert wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:21 pm
The Aryan Brotherhood will protect him in prison.

joemac wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:48 pm

highdesert wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:21 pm
The Aryan Brotherhood will protect him in prison.

Well, that depends on what happens during sentencing. He might have a 3 or 4 drug cocktail waiting for him.

Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for killing Heather Heyer in a vehicular attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year.

A jury sentenced Fields to one life term for the murder, along with 419 years for another nine charges, according to NBC Washington. The jury also recommended he be fined nearly half a million dollars.

The 21-year-old extremist, who is associated with the hate group Vanguard America, was charged with first-degree murder and nine other felonies after he intentionally rammed his vehicle into anti-racist counterprotesters following the “Unite the Right” rally on Aug. 12, 2017, killing one and injuring dozens more. Fields was found guilty of all 10 charges on Friday, and faces 30 charges in a separate federal case concerning the same attack.