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Car PLOWS Through Protesters And KILLS ONE And INJURES 19 People In Charlottesville Virginia Protest
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2:14Now PlayingCar PLOWS Through Protesters And KILLS ONE And INJURES 19 People In Charlottesville Virginia Protest
WATCH: One dead, 19 injured after car plows through crowd at Charlottesville protest. The white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA has resulted in multiple casualties after a vehicle plowed through a crowd. The victims were members of a large anti-fascist or Antifa rally against the racist gathering and the car may have been used for an intentional act of violence. One of the victims said, “they were just bulldozing through people.”
“They just hit the gas and hit me…and then people just chased after them, throwing stuff at the car after that,” he explained.
The protesters were chanting, “whose streets, our streets” when the incident occurred. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency. Twitter Ads info and privacy
Multiple victims have been hospitalized and the mayor of Charlottesville, Mike Signer, is reporting there is one fatality. The Associated Press confirms that one person is dead and 19 have been injured in the incident. Charlottesville Rally Turns Deadly: One Killed After Car Strikes Crowd. One person was killed and nineteen others were injured in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a car plowed through a group of counter-protesters who were demonstrating against an alt-right and white nationalist rally.
Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas said a 32-year-old woman was killed and the suspect vehicle which fled was found moments later and a male driver was arrested.
"We are currently treating this as a criminal homicide investigation," Thomas said at a press conference. "The premediated violence that our community experienced today was completely unacceptable," he said.
Two Virginia State Police troopers were also killed in a helicopter crash seven miles south of the city at around 5 p.m., the FAA and a senior law enforcement official briefed on the matter said. Circumstances of the crash are not clear and the incident is under investigation, state police said. Twitter Ads info and privacy
The University of Virginia Health System said it was treating 19 patients from the car crash — five are in critical condition, four are in serious condition, six are fair and four are in good condition.
Described as a group of "anti-racist protesters" by a witness who took video of the crash, the group of marchers was packed close together at the end of a street near the intersection of Fourth and Water streets in downtown Charlottesville when the car struck. Brennan Gilmore, a 37-year-old who works for a start up, shot the footage and said he heard tires squealing before he saw a gray Dodge Charger build up speed and ram the crowd. It hit a number of people before plowing into the bumper of another car.
"It was very clearly intentional," Gilmore told NBC News. "From the far end of the street it accelerated, slowed down right before the crowd and then slammed on the gas through the crowd sending bodies flying. And then it reversed back into the street dragging bodies and clothes."
Thirty-five people overall were treated for injuries by city personnel, Thomas said, and 14 of those were hurt in "individual engagements" as violence flared amid the white nationalist rally and counter-protests. No injuries were reported from interactions with police, he said.
Ahead of the rally that was planned for noon, different groups of protesters clashed with hundreds of white nationalists, Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis throughout the day. They began to disperse after Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency and police told attendees to depart. UniteTheRight. UniteTheWhite. Neo-Nazis. Nazis. White Supremacists. White Nationalists. Racists. Virginia Rally. Virginia Protest. "I have a message to all the white supremacists and the Nazis who came into Charlottesville today: Our message is plain and simple. Go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth," McAuliffe said at a press conference Saturday. President Donald Trump called the series of events terrible, but was criticized for not providing a full-throated condemnation of the white nationalist elements of the protests, which included former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke and white nationalist leader Richard Spencer.
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