See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr. Multiple people were injured in the incident, the Charlottesville Police Department said on its Facebook page. Tensions in the city intensified when at least one vehicle plowed into a crowd of people gathered in a street two blocks from the park. “I am praying that God help us all,” Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy said in an interview with CNN. “I urge all people of good will – go home.” He did not give details of who died and what caused the death. “I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here,” Charlottesville Mayor Mike Singer said on his Twitter feed. A jury in Virginia has found a group of white nationalists who organized the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., liable of engaging in a conspiracy ahead of the violent. The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 1112, 2017. The clashes on Saturday morning prompted the governor to declare an emergency and halt a rally over removing a Confederate general’s statue from a public park. One person was killed in Virginia on Saturday after white nationalists clashed with counter-demonstrators and a car plowed into a crowd near the scene of the earlier melee, the mayor of Charlottesville said. Matt Eich for The New York Times Jason E. Rescue workers move victims on stretchers after car plowed through a crowd of counter-demonstrators marching through the downtown shopping district Aug. Starting at a municipal park less than a mile away, alt-right protesters who have gathered for the weekend Unite the Right rally marched in a long column over the short distance to the. Unite the Right supporters and counterprotesters confronted one another near downtown Charlottesville in 2017. Violent clashes erupt at ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Va.
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