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12-07-2018 04:01 PM |
Trump supporter that murdered protester & injured 8 protesters, found guilty
Another day and another Trump supporter to spend years in prison. When will trump supporters learn they're not above the law?
Trump supporters that murdered protester & injured 8 protesters quiet q, found guilty
James Alex Fields Jr., the white nationalist accused of deliberately plowing his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during the 2017 Charlottesville white-nationalist rally, was found guilty on Friday of murdering one of those counter-protesters.
Fields, 21, an Ohio native, was charged with first-degree murder last year following the hit-and-run attack, which killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injured dozens other anti-racism protesters who ran counter to the “Unite the Right” rally. He was found guilty on that top charge.
Fields was also found guilty on five counts of aggravated malicious wounding, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count of failing to stop at an accident involving a death.
All of this on top of the 30-count hate crime indictment brought against him by the Department of Justice.
The outcome comes after a highly anticipated two-week trial in Charlottesville, Virginia, which focused on Field’s intent to attend and inflict violence at the white supremacist rally, where hundreds of alt-right, white-nationalist, and neo-Nazi activists carrying tiki torches gathered to protect a statue of Confederate General Robert. E. Lee.
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