On Saturday August 12 protesters gathered at former Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of the Emancipation Park’s former namesake, General Robert E. Lee of the American Civil War, on his horse. When counter-protesters advanced on the area fights broke out between the groups. The police then arrived and dispersed the original protesters while the counter-protesters started braking up. Then a car driven by a man later identified as Alex Fields Jr. rammed into a group of them apparently purposefully. Killing one, putting 19 in the hospital and injuring 16 more. The day was the most dramatic stroke in the year and a half of debate in the town over the statue.
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