Alleged Charlottesville car attacker goes on trial for murder

[DonViejo]

Last edited Mon Nov 26, 2018, 10:26 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: The Guardian

James Alex Fields, 21, accused of killing Heather Heyer, 32

Many injured in incident following far-right rally in Virginia

Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett

Mon 26 Nov 2018 01.00 EST

The man who allegedly rammed a car into a crowd of protesters during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year is set to go to trial on Monday for the murder of Heather Heyer.

Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal, was one of the local residents who protested against neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups that descended on the quiet university town for a “Unite the Right” rally on 12 August 2017. Dozens of other protesters were injured, many seriously, in the alleged car attack.

James Alex Fields, a 21-year-old white man who was photographed marching with the neo-Nazi group Vanguard America, faces a first-degree murder charge, multiple charges of malicious wounding and assault and separate federal hate crime charges.

As a high school student in Ohio, Fields idolized Hitler and Nazism and his white supremacist views were a “known issue”, one of his teachers told reporters after the attack. His mother told the Associated Press she had known her son was traveling to Virginia to attend a rally, but had “thought it had something to do with Trump”.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/26/charlottesville-car-attacker-trial-murder-kames-alex-fields-heather-heyer

[joshdawg]

1. Lock him up!

And throw away the key.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Lol " alleged " .... does that state have the d.p

[Farmer-Rick]

3. When I stood up in 9th grade and said I supported women's rights

I was ridiculed relentlessly by my class mates for the next 3 years. But when the racist stood up in speech class and claimed he thought black people were inferior and Jews killed Christ, the kids laughed and patted him on the back. I sometimes wonder what America really is.

The ONLY Person to die when the German Nazi flag flew in Charlottesville was a White Woman. White women are not part of white supremacy .

[ck4829]

5. That is awful

[Farmer-Rick]

13. Yeah, it was a very racist small town in PA

It was a tough high school but I survived. I think it made me stronger and more socially aware in many ways.

There were no minority students at the school. Of course at the time, I had no idea how white supremacy and the hatred of women were so interconnected.

[Dopers_Greed]

4. Radical republican terror

[Beaverhausen]

6. A right wing tool on Facebook said that Antifa members were attacking his car

And that’s why he gunned the engine.

So, it really wasn’t his fault. It’s all the fault of Antifa

[ck4829]

7. They're always 'joking' about ramming protesters though

Now they can't own up to endorsing it?

[jmowreader]

8. Give me a break, guys

Not you, but the right. WTF is this, using Antifa as a weird new form of the Twinkie defense?

You guys (meaning the right) blame Antifa for everything from Gavin McInnes’ latest sad to the price of milk.

You’re not getting away with this. He gunned his car to maliciously kill people. He’s going to jail. He should be going on the end of a rope.

[Downtown Hound]

9. Tell him that there's is actually video of him backing his car up, while NOT under attack

and then gunning it forward and ramming another car into the protesters. He was not attacked at all until AFTER Heather was killed.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Alleged?

I know it's a legal point, but there is nothing alleged about this incident.

It's on video, we know 100% for sure who was behind the wheel, and there's obviously already an indictment, or there wouldn't be a trial taking place.

This guy did it. The only question is the magnitude of crime for which he can be convicted.

[yardwork]

11. There's no link in your OP.

[DonViejo]

12. Fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.