State of emergency declared after clashes at Virginia white nationalist rally
By Reuters
13 August 2017 |
4:00 am
White nationalists clashed with counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday ahead of a rally to protest the planned removal of a Confederate general's statue that critics say glorifies the era of slavery.
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