Right-Wing Groups Want Charlottesville Trial Moved for Fear of Attacks
- Right-wing groups are asking to move the trial to another city
- They worry police won’t properly restrain angry protesters
Right-wing demonstrators clash with counter-protesters on the outskirts of Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017.
Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Right-wing organizers of the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, asked a judge to move an October civil trial to another city out of fear that police will allow violent protesters to attack them with impunity.
City officials have failed to properly discourage protesters who may attend the trial or clarify past statements identifying the city as the “capital of the resistance,” White nationalist group Identity Evropa and the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Worker’s Party said in a court filing Friday.