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(15 Aug 2017) STORY
On August 12th 2017 Virginia's governor declared a state of emergency in response to a white nationalist rally that is expected to draw up to 6,000 people.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe said via his Twitter account that the declaration was made in order to aid state response to violence at the rally in Charlottesville, about 100 miles outside of Washington, D.C.
It's the latest confrontation in the city since it voted earlier this year to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a downtown park.
The city's manager also declared a local emergency and police ordered people to disperse from the area around the statue after several violent clashes broke out.
Rally supporters and counter-protesters screamed, chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other on August 12th.
Men dressed in militia uniforms were carrying shields and openly carrying long guns.
Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler planned what he called a pro-white rally to protest Charlottesville's decision to remove Lee's statue from a city park.
There were also fights on August 11th, when hundreds of white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus carrying torches.
A university spokesman said one person was arrested and several people were injured.
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Authorities were on the scene in downtown Charlottesville where a vehicle ploughed into a group of people marching peacefully through the city on August 12th.
An Associated Press reporter saw at least one person on the ground receiving medical treatment immediately afterward the incident, which occurred approximately two hours after violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters.
The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them.
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Shouting terrorists go home, a small crowd of angry protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia rallied against a man holding a confederate flag next to a statue honouring confederate general Robert E. Lee.
The statue, in Emancipation Park, was a flashpoint for violent demonstrations over the weekend of August 12th and 13th in Charlottesville.
After a roughly 20 minute standoff, police officers who were monitoring the situation convinced the armed man holding the flag to leave the park because of safety concerns.
The unidentified man told reporters, as he left, that he did not support the alt-right demonstrations that happened over the weekend, saying I wanted to honour my ancestors today.
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US President Donald Trump returned insistently on August 15th to his assessment that there is blame on both sides after being roundly criticised for such comments following the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump's remarks on his home turf at Trump Tower in New York City followed a more deliberate statement he made on August 14th in Washington.
Reading from prepared remarks inside the White House, he said then that racism is evil and branded members of the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists who take part in violence as criminals and thugs.
That statement followed sharp and unrelenting criticism, including from many top Republican lawmakers, of his more general Saturday remarks bemoaning violence on many sides.
There are two sides to a story, he said.
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Charlottesville - Virginia gov. declares state of emergency amid violence at Charlottesville rally
Charlottesville - Virginia gov. declares state of emergency amid violence at Charlottesville rally
The city of Charlottesville has declared Saturday’s gathering at Emancipation Park — site of the scheduled “Unite the Right” rally” of white nationalists and right-wing protesters — an unlawful assembly. Police officers are speaking on bullhorns, directing people to leave the park.
City officials also declared a local emergency, which will allow officials to request additional resources, if needed, to respond.
Two people were injured in a “rally-related altercation,” according to police.
CNN reported that the injuries are serious, but not life threatening.
Demonstrators clashed Saturday on the streets of Charlottesville ahead of a “Unite the Right” rally as white nationalists and other right-wing groups — and counter-protesters — converged in this college town in the latest flare-up of a running nation debate over the country’s identity.
Fist fights and screaming matches erupted before the rally, which police expect to attract thousands of people. The skirmishes unfolded just hours after a scuffle Friday night between torch-bearing demonstrators and counter-protesters at the nearby University of Virginia.
Saturday’s rally is the latest event drawing white nationalists and right-wing activists from across the country to this Democratic-voting college town — a development first precipitated by the city’s decision to remove symbols of its Confederate past.
Though the rally is scheduled for noon ET, hundreds had gathered by mid-morning on Charlottesville’s streets and at a city park.
Shortly before noon, city officials signaled they might move to break it up, declaring it an “unlawful assembly” on Twitter. A local emergency also was declared.
At one point, a few dozen white men wearing helmets and holding makeshift shields chanted, “Blood and soil!” Nearby, a group of clergy and other counter-demonstrators, including activist and Harvard professor Cornel West, held hands, prayed and sang. “This Little Light of Mine.”
Police presence was heavy on this overcast day, with more than 1,000 officers expected to be deployed, city officials said.
Police anticipate the rally will attract as many as 2,000 to 6,000 people and could be the “largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States,” as described by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Friday clashes in a city attracting far-right activists
Charlottesville, once home to Thomas Jefferson, is known as a progressive city of about 47,000 people. Eighty percent of its voters choose Hillary Clinton during last year’s election.
But far-right activists and Ku Klux Klan members have come here in recent months, outraged by the city’s intention to remove traces of its links to the Confederacy — including plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The move follows efforts by communities across the South to remove Confederate iconography from public property since the 2015 rampage killings of nine black churchgoers in Charleston by a self-described white supremacist.
Ahead of Saturday’s rally, tensions roiled Friday night as white nationalists — some holding what appeared to be backyard tiki-style torches — marched onto the University of Virginia’s campus.
Chanting, “Blood and soil” and “You will not replace us,” the group rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson before they clashed with counter-protesters, CNN affiliate WWBT reported. The group left the university’s grounds when police arrived and declared the gathering an unlawful assembly.
City and UVA officials condemned Friday’s march.
“In my 47 years of association with @UVA, this was the most nauseating thing I’ve ever seen. We need an exorcism on the Lawn,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics tweeted.
Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer released a statement referring to Friday’s rally as a “cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance march down the lawns of the architect of our Bill of Rights.”
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Fighting has broken out at a ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia between right-wing protesters demonstrating against the removal of a Confederate-era statue from Emancipation Park, and counter demonstrators.
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Charlottesville Virginia Riots
A white supremacist rally planned for noon on Saturday, and billed as the largest in decades, was declared an “unlawful assembly” and was cleared by law enforcement. The gathering turned violent before noon, as waves of arriving white nationalist marchers armed with cudgels and carrying shields met with heckles and projectiles from counterprotesters who sought to block their route.
Governor Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) declared a state of emergency “to aid state response to violence” at the rally. National Guard could be seen, as well as state police. The city of Charlottesville also declared a local emergency, which allows it to access additional resources to respond to the conflict. Late Friday night, a judge granted the white nationalist group permission to rally in protest of the city’s decision to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.
As the crowd built up outside the park where the rally was to be held, minor scuffles started breaking out between counter protesters – a mix of silent prayer, Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist – knowns as “antifa” – and the KKK-like group promoting white supremacy.
The park entrance where the worst of the violence erupted had earlier in the day been blocked by clergy in religious robes, members of a separate nonviolent resistance protest against the hate rally. Standing two and three deep, shoulder to shoulder, the clergy eventually gave way in the face of a concerted forward march by the white power vanguard with their shields.
A tense scene had pervaded for hours Saturday morning, with occasional small scuffles here and there, but it was not until around 11 o’clock that the violence fully broke out.
Virginia state troopers shut down two corners of the park where the rally was to be held. This left open two staircase entrances on the other two corners along Market Street, with barriers guiding rallygoers single-file into the park.
At one of those two entrances, a group of heavily armed, unidentified militiamen stood by the groups of white nationalists, while a group of antifa counterprotesters sought to rile them up. State police stood above, between metal barriers at the edge of the park, watching.
At the other entrance a group of clergy stood two deep at the top of the stairs, seeking to block passage. But after the corner below erupted in clashes, the group was forced to stand aside as white nationalists filed up this staircase and made it into the park. It was unclear if the clergy resisted.
From that new vantage point, Unite the Right rallygoers began throwing water bottles back at the antifa group that had begun flinging bottles, balloons, and other objects. ThinkProgress reporter Joshua Eaton also noted that protesters, armed with homemade shields, were using mace and pepper spray on each other.
Between these two entrances, a fight began between antifa counterprotesters and white nationalists, focused near the corner where this ThinkProgress Facebook Live video took place, there have been fights as well as bottles and smoking cannisters thrown.
Throughout all of this, the Virginia state troopers stayed off to the side, not intervening, as they have almost the entire area cordoned off.
After the Facebook Live video, ThinkProgress reporter Alan Pyke watched a smoking cannister fired from the group of white supremacists in the park into the group of counterprotesters.
Then a white nationalist organizer in the park announced through a bullhorn that the rally had been deemed an unlawful assembly and they’ve been ordered to disperse. A Charlottesville police officer then confirmed this through a megaphone and ordered everyone to disperse. Fights continued to spasm through the crowd for another half hour as most filed away through the streets open to them.
Eaton, standing one block away from the park, said that while riot police used a small amount of tear gas to clear the gathering, they initially allowed protesters to gather in nearby intersections and streets.
“Protests have now largely moved to the side streets,” said Eaton who could see hundreds of protesters in the two blocks around the park after the rally was disbursed.
The “scores” of riot police started to line up at the 1st Street intersection near the park and started to push protesters out of the streets.
Observing the tense scene leading up the march, Eaton and Pyke initially noted the sparse police presence there.
The white supremacists also marched through the campus of the University of Virginia on Friday night, seemingly setting the tone for Saturday.
White nationalist rally brings clashes in Charlottesville
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency in Charlottesville on Saturday as hundreds of white nationalists and alt-right activists clashed with police and counter-protesters. It was the second rally to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park. The NewsHour’s P.J. Tobia joins Hari Sreenivasan from Charlottesville.
The lie of white supremacy is a bi-partisan value
On Friday October 12, I visited Emancipation Park (formerly Lee Park) in Charlottesville VA. This is the location where the Unite the Right Rally took place in August of 2017. And it was at a counter protest to this rally, about a half mile away, that Heather Heyer was struck and killed by a car. James Alex Fields Jr. was charged in both state and federal court for her murder.
In this video I acknowledge and lament the hate that stems from the explicit belief in the lie of white supremacy that is held, normalized and even celebrated by the current Republican administration and many of our President's followers. But I also point out and reflect on the implicit belief in the lie of white supremacy that is held and perpetuated by the Democratic Party.
I invite you to watch this video and understand more deeply the challenges we face if we want to become a nation where We the People actually means All the People.
Ryan Condemns Alt-Right Chaos In Charlottesville, Virginia
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency in the city, after the alt-right, white nationalists making up the “Unite the Right” rally at Emancipation Park dissolved into a hellish, chaotic scene. House Speaker Paul Ryan issued a strong statement on social media, condemning the rally participants. He tweeted, “The views fueling the spectacle in Charlottesville are repugnant. Let it only serve to unite Americans against this kind of vile bigotry.” Fights broke out hours before a protest was scheduled in Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park, where white supremacists, white nationalists and alt-right groups were gathering to protest the city’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Saturday’s rally followed a Friday night protest in which hundreds of white nationalists carrying torches marched through the campus of the University of Virginia.
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Charlottesville Car Ramming (U.S)
On Saturday the 12th of August 2017, One person has died & 19 others were injured when a car rammed a crowd of people opposing a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. Police say.
Video posted on social media showed a car ploughing at speed into several slow-moving vehicles, which were surrounded by a densely packed crowd.
A witness said one girl got tore up after the car backed up & hit again.
Officials said the driver had been taken into custody.
The car crash shows a gray sedan accelerating into crowds on a pedestrian mall, sending bodies flying & then reversing at high speed, hitting yet more people.
Witnesses said the street was filled with people opposed to the white nationalists who had come to town bearing Confederate flags & anti-Semitic epithets.
Charlottesville is considered a liberal college town; & 86% of the county voted for Hillary Clinton in last year's presidential elections.
However, the town has become a focal point for white nationalists after the city council voted to remove the statue of Gen Lee.
President Trump broke his silence Saturday afternoon amid violent confrontations between white nationalist groups & counter protesters in Charlottesville, tweeting that there was “no place for this kind of violence in America.”
“We all must be united & condemn all that hate stands for,” the President stated on Twitter shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday. “Lets come together as one!”
By then, a “Unite the Right” rally planned for noon — originally intended to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the city's Emancipation Park — had been canceled as Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) declared a state of emergency.
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Charlottesville - Torch-bearing white nationalists march at University of Virginia - BigNews
Charlottesville - Torch-bearing white nationalists march at University of Virginia - BigNews
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
Alt-right activists marched in a torch-lit rally late Friday through the University of Virginia campus and clashed with rival protesters, CNN reported.
Protesters chanted “blood and soil” and “one people, one nation, end immigration” as they rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson, WWBT reported.
The march occurred several hours before a Saturday rally in Emancipation Park around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Police believe the rally could attract up to 6,000 people, CNN reported. The Southern Poverty Law Center said the event could be “the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States.”
Police broke up Friday’s march, calling it “unlawful assembly.” University officials condemned the gathering. Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer said in a statement that the rally was “a cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance” that passed by the statue Jefferson, who founded the university in 1819.
“Everyone has a right under the First Amendment to express their opinion peaceably, so here's mine: not only as the Mayor of Charlottesville, but as a UVA faculty member and alumnus, I am beyond disgusted by this unsanctioned and despicable display of visual intimidation on a college campus, Signer said.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said she “strongly” condemned the clashes.
Law enforcement continues to investigate the incident, and it is my hope that any individuals responsible for criminal acts are held accountable,” she said in a statement.
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White supremacist rally in Virginia
White nationalist demonstrators clash with a counter demonstrator by throwing a newspaper box in Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. Gov.
White nationalist demonstrators clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017.
Virginia State Police use pepper spray as they move in to clear a clash between members of white nationalist protesters against a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
A counter demonstrator gets a splash of water after being hit by pepper spray at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017.
Members of white nationalist groups rally as counter-protesters confront them in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
White supremacists and counter protestors clash at Emancipation Park where the white nationalists were protesting the removal of the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville, Va., on August 12, 2017.
A white supremacist with one lens knocked out of his sunglasses holds up a shield during clashes with counter protestors at Emancipation Park where the White Nationalists are protesting the removal of the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville, Va., on August 12, 2017.
A smoke bomb is thrown at a group of counter-protesters during a clash against members of white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
Battle lines form between white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right and anti-fascist counter-protesters at the entrance to Lee Park during the Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
A white supremacist stands behind militia members after he scuffled with a counter demonstrator in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
A white supremacist carries the Confederate flag as he walks past counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
Virginia State Troopers stand under a statue of Robert E. Lee before a white supremacists rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
Members of a white supremacist militia stand near a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
Young men hold up torches as other white supremacists march through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., on August 11, 2017.
A man is helped after being hit in the face with pepper spray during a clash.
A group holds up a flag on the steps of the University of Virginia rotunda.
White supremacists encircle and chant at counter-protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches.
White supremacists march through the University of Virginia Campus with torches.
White supremacists march through the University of Virginia Campus with torches.
Grounds of conflict: Unite the Right rally Charlottesville, Va.
Thousands gathered at the Unite the Right rally in Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va. Riots, chants and violence began before the rally was set to start. Counter-protesters yelled Nazi scum and chanted Black Lives Matter. In each shot of this footage, there's a different story unfolding. The city declared the protest an unlawful assembly around noon, the original start time for the rally. By early afternoon, law enforcement ordered everyone in the area to evacuate immediately. Watch more from the scene in Virginia.
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The City of Charlottesville remains on edge ahead of ‘Unite the Right’ rally - LP 193
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Charlottesville, colloquially C'ville and formally the City of Charlottesville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 48,210. Charlottesville is the heart of the Charlottesville metropolitan area, which includes Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene and Nelson counties.
Charlottesville recently became more famous as it took place for hours of protests after a large group of white nationalists carried torches through Virginia University on Friday night.
The city has become a gathering place for white nationalists, neo-Confederates and alt-right activists from across the country protesting the removal of Confederate monuments.
This problem arises from the fact that the city council voted to remove the statue Lee but still in the process of litigation.
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American general known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. He served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy.
The arrival of the alt-right activist and Ku Klux Klan members has involve to the city's plan to remove the traces of the Confederate past.
A rally planned on Saturday affects many people. Because it is expected that this will be a very large rally, it will attract 2,000 to 6,000 people. This made a group of more than 40 local business owners near the park request the city to protect them.
And what must have happened was when protesters have been arrested at the site of Saturday's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The unspecified number of arrests began shortly after police made a declaration of unlawful assembly at Emancipation Park.
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Unite The Right Charlottesville – Political Violence & Pepper Spray (August 12th, 2017)
Emancipation Park, formerly known as Lee Park
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As the day progressed more political violence by the Anti-Fascist Action (Antifa) and Black Lives Matter (BLM) continued. The violent actions were not only directed against the groups primarily attending the rally but also various alternative media reporters on the left and right as well. Infowars camera man and reporter were violently attacked by an Antifa member physically at first and then were shot in the face with pepper spray. During this time I attempted to help the camera man as best I could and briefly became an Infowars reporter on the ground for about a minute documenting with the man’s camera what was taking place out on the ground. Eventually an unknown attacker ran up from behind and began pepper spraying me point blank in my face from behind completely blinding me for a period of 15 to 20 minutes. I manage to get myself to safety where members of the League of the South helped clear out my eyes to remove as much of the pepper spray as they possibly could.
In this video you will also hear some of the testimony from other rally attendees of what type of weapons Antifa was using against them such as pepper spray, water bottles filled with urine, feces, paint, and slime like skin burning chemical and tear gas. While all of this violence was taking place, police made no effort to prevent it from occurring, made no effort to separate the 2 groups away from one another ensuring that violent clashes would occur, and even failed to let the rally attendees know a state of emergency and been declared hours before the rally was supposed to begin. It is as if the police allowed as many of the rally people show up as possible having them walk through mobs of angry Antifa and BLM demonstrators only to be told shortly after everyone gathered together that everyone must leave immediately due to it being an unlawful assembly. Not only was the permitted rally shut down by the authorities but they told everyone that they would be forced to walk back down the way they came in after enough violent action had already taken place down on the street level.
It became a rather dangerous situation to be in for everyone and it is quite clear the city government and the high ranking elements of the police had no interest in actually doing the right thing from the start. Many people got hurt (me included) and it even escalated to the point where several people died when a vehicle smashed right into them.
This should be an example of why people should not depend on the State for their self-defense when the State refuses to do anything as they laugh while people are violently attacked by Antifa and the BLM.
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Charlottesville - Judge rules Charlottlesville alt-right rally can go on - BigNews
Charlottesville - Judge rules Charlottlesville alt-right rally can go on - BigNews
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A federal judge has ordered a Virginia city to allow a weekend rally of white nationalists and other extremists to take place at its originally planned location downtown.
U.S. District Judge Glen Conrad issued a preliminary injunction Friday in a lawsuit filed against
charlottesville-protest-richard-spender-kkk-robert-e-lee-statueEditUnlink Charlottesville by right-wing blogger Jason Kessler.
Kessler organized the Saturday rally to protest Charlottesville's decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park. Social media users posted photos Friday night with the hashtag #UniteTheRight at the University of Virginia.
The city announced earlier this week that the rally must be moved out of Emancipation Park to a larger one, citing safety reasons. The rally and counter-protests are expected to draw thousands of people.
Kessler sued, saying the change was a free speech violation. In court on Friday, Kessler's attorney, Victor Glasberg, argued that the city changed the permit location for Kessler's rally because city officials did not like Kessler's message, CBS affiliate WCAV reports.
Glasberg pointed to tweets sent by Mayor Mike Singer that had criticized the alt-right and encouraged residets to take a stand against it. But Charlottesville City Attorney Craig Brown said the city manager, Maurice Jones, made the decision to move the rally, WCAV reports.
The judge wrote that Kessler was likely to prevail and granted the injunction.
Earlier this summer, Charlottesville generated national headlines when the Ku Klux Klan planned on holding a rally to protest the city's selling of a Robert E. Lee statue. In the end, only 50 KKK members ended up attending, but thousands of counterprotests attended.
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Charlottesville - Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally
Charlottesville - Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally - BigNews
Officials in Charlottesville in the US state of Virginia have declared a state of emergency ahead of a large march by white nationalists.
Thousands of people are expected to join the Unite the Right rally against plans to remove a statue of a pro-slavery US Civil War general.
Violent clashes erupted between far-right groups and counter-protesters who have also gathered in the city.
Two people have been injured, police say.
The state of emergency allows local authorities to request additional resources if needed, the police department said.
Police have fired tear gas and pepper spray against demonstrators and said that arrests had been made after a declaration of unlawful assembly at Emancipation Park.
The far-right protesters are angry about the planned removal of a statue of Gen Robert E Lee from Charlottesville. Lee commanded the Confederate forces in the US Civil War of 1861-65.
The BBC's Joel Gunter in Charlottesville says police have not yet interrupted clashes between the rival demonstrators, adding that it had been extremely violent so far.
Charlottesville has become a focal point for white nationalists after the city council voted to remove a statue of General Lee.
On Friday, the group waved torches and chanted White lives matter as they marched through the University of Virginia in the city. Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer condemned the march as a parade of hatred.
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White nationalists and counter-protesters clash in Charlottesville
Hundreds of white nationalists gathered to march to the Jefferson Statue at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on Friday, August 11. The following day, they faced off against hundreds of counter-protesters at Emancipation Park, and violent clashes erupted. (WARNING: Strong language & violence)
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