State of emergency declared in Virginia amid ongoing clashes during counter rallies

Record ID: 906117

  • Title: State of emergency declared in Virginia amid ongoing clashes during counter rallies
  • Date: 12th August 2017
  • Summary: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 12, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY**** **WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** COUNTER PROTESTERS CLASHING AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN IN MOCK CHAINS SHOUTING AT WHITE NATIONALISTS VARIOUS OF COUNTER PROTESTERS CLASHING VIOLENTLY POLICE OFFICER TELLING PEOPLE FROM HIS BULLHORN TO DISPERSE OR RISK ARREST, PAN TO LINE OF HEAVILY ARMED RIOT POLICE MEN STANDING ON THE LAWN, PAN TO LINE OF RIOT POLICE, WHITE NATIONALIST FACES THE POLICE AND SAYS "WE NEED A WAY OUT OF HERE" COUNTER PROTESTERS SHOUTING AND JEERING AT THE WHITE NATIONALISTS AS THEY LEAVE THE SCENE POLICE WATCHING IN THE BACKGROUND AS THE WHITE NATIONALISTS STREAM PAST IN THE NEAR FOREGROUND COUNTER PROTESTER HOLDING ANTI FASCIST SIGN SHOUTING AT THE RETREATING WHITE NATIONALISTS, PAN TO WHITE NATIONALISTS WHO ARE LEAVING AND GETTING INTO VERBAL SHOUTING MATCHES WITH COUNTER PROTESTERS WATCHING THEM GO CROWD OF RIOT POLICE PUSH BACK ON WHITE NATIONALISTS IN PARK AREA , PAN TO SOMEONE TUSSLING WITH OVER A FLAG WITH SOMEONE ELSE LINE OF RIOT POLICE TELLING PEOPLE TO GET OUT OF THE PARK , PAN TO PROTESTERS DISPERSING WITH POSSIBLE TEAR GAS IN THE BACKGROUND VARIOUS OF POLICE NEXT TO AN ARMORED RIOT VEHICLE TELLING PEOPLE VIA BULL HORN THAT THE EVENT HAS BEEN DECLARED UNLAWFUL AND PEOPLE NEED TO DISPERSE CROWD OF RIOT POLICE PUSH BACK ON PROTESTERS TO BLOCK AN ENTRANCE PATH INTO THE PARK AREA
  • Embargoed: 26th August 2017 17:46
  • Keywords: riot police Virginia protesters Charlottesville KKK Unite the Right white nationalists scuffles civil unrest Black Lives Matter
  • Location: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA , UNITED STATES
  • City: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA , UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016TUP93B
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: +++ CONTAINS PROFANITY +++
    White nationalists clashed with counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday (August 12) ahead of a rally to protest the planned removal of a Confederate general's statue that critics say glorifies the era of slavery.
    Fighting broke out in the city's downtown before noon when hundreds of people, some wearing white nationalist symbols and carrying Confederate battle flags, were confronted by a nearly equal number of counter-protesters. The clashes began the previous evening, resulting in at least one arrest.
    Soon after the melee erupted, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency in the city, home of the University of Virginia's flagship campus. The gathering was declared an "unlawful assembly," allowing police to disperse the protesters.
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