What to know about the civil trial over Charlottesville's deadly "Unite the Right" rally
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Jury deliberations are underway in the civil case involving notorious white nationalist and neo-Nazi leaders who organized the two-day "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one person killed and scores injured.
In August 2017, extremists chanting "Jews will not replace us!" encircled counter-protesters on the University of Virginia campus, wielding and in some cases throwing burning tiki torches as they marched. One of the participants, neo-Nazi and Hitler sympathizer James Alex Fields Jr., drove his car from Ohio to attend, and later plowed it through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 32-year old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens.
Fields, a defendant in the lawsuit, is already serving multiple life sentences in prison for murder and hate crimes as a result of the car attack. The Virginia Court of Appeals denied an appeal from Fields on Thursday.
