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Unite the Right rally |
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![](//up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/White_supremacists_clash_with_police_%2836421659232%29.jpg/300px-White_supremacists_clash_with_police_%2836421659232%29.jpg) White nationalist protesters clash with police during the rally |
Date | August 11–12, 2017 (2017-08-11 – 2017-08-12) |
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Caused by | Decision of Charlottesville City Council to order removal of Confederate monuments and memorials from public spaces |
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Goals | Preserve the monument of Robert E. Lee |
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Methods | protests, violence, terrorism |
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- Heather Heyer
- DeAndre Harris
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- 1 killed by vehicle-ramming attack
- 19 injured during vehicle-ramming
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- 2 state troopers died in helicopter crash[1]
- At least 14 injured in other clashes
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