Torch-carrying marchers indicted in Charlottesville rally

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Nearly six years after a gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville erupted in violent clashes with counterprotesters, a jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate.

erupted in violent clashes with counterprotesters, a grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate.

Commonwealth's Attorney James Hingeley did not say in the release how many people have been indicted and did not immediately return a call and email seeking comment on Tuesday. According to electronic court records, the indictments against three people have been unsealed, including William Zachary Smith, of Nacona, Texas; Tyler Bradley Dykes, of Bluffton, South Carolina; and Dallas Medina, of Ravenna, Ohio.

Smith's attorney, Cody Villalon, declined to comment when reached by phone Tuesday. Dykes and Medina do not have the name of any attorneys listed in electronic court records. Clashes began on the night of Aug. 11, 2017, during the torch march, and continued the following day, when a"Unite the Right" rally was planned. James Alex Fields Jr., a white supremacist from Maumee, Ohio, rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one woman and injuring dozens.

 

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How is marching with a candle a crime?

All it takes to make the media shit themselves is tiki torches and a few unapologetically proud White people, apparently. When It's blacks, It's 'mostly peaceful' while buildings burn down in the background. When It's Whites, marching with tiki torches, It's 'domestic terrorism'

Outrageous. Going to jail for being white and carrying a tiki torch

Yeah. Yeah. We know Whites are not allowed to advocate for their own interest. So much, that it is a felony to carry a tiki torch.

tweetsfromstar , will you ask Spencer if he's been contacted or is worried, next time you chat with him?

The state of Virginia: allocating the justice system to combat the TRUELY dangerous elements of society.

Peaceful fires? You won’t find any convictions for this actual insurrection

When I watched the video of the march, I thought I was seeing a bad Mel Brooks skit. It was a display of willful ignorance, racism and bigotry, but not a criminal act.

All protests are an attempt to intimidate - counter-protests moreso

Wtf is this? Intimidation? I watched BLM and Antifa set up autonomous zones and burn buildings and police cars..

Remember, these same people who organized this event have connections with Azov in Ukraine.

White people aren't the only ones who can be racist 2020 and 2023 has proven that, but only white people make the news and are condemned for racism even though they are fighting for what they believe in, no racism by any color is acceptable

you spelled 'fed plants' wrong

MaryDil29664033 From what I’ve gathered it was feds that were holding up the tiki torches. Has anyone debunked that?

Setting thinks alight seems to be a popular form of intimidation in America.

I’m fine charging people committing crimes - but 6 years after the fact deciding carrying a torch is a felony seems a little too political & Braggesque to be reasonable - Weaponizing the law? Wonder if we’ll see this regarding BLM protests in retribution.

Hahah points for creativity

Man if we only had an ethnostate then we wouldn't need communist ethnic intimidation laws

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