Victims Sue Organizers Of Violent Charlottesville Rally Under 150 Year Old Ku Klux Klan Act
Hundreds of white supremacists and demonstrators went to Charlottesville, Virginia, on an August weekend in 2017 to protest the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue. The protest escalated into a violent affair with altercations between those groups and counterprotesters, with fighting in the streets and a Hitler admirer ramming a car into a crowd, killing a woman and injuring others. Now, the four plaintiffs who were injured in the incident must prove the defendants plotted to commit racially motivated violence in advance....