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I would prefer that we could not see race at all,” rally organizer Kessler said at Sunday’s rally. “I would prefer that we didn't have any identity politics. A self-described Nazi is accused of ramming his vehicle into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing a 32-year-old woman named Heather Heyer. The white nationalist event, called Unite the Right II, came one year after the first Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists, neo-Nazis and members of other hate groups, marched across the University of Virginia campus and clashed with counter-demonstrators in the city. flag at the heckling counter-protesters and said, “America, baby, America.” One of the Unite the Right marchers shook a U.S. They were jeered by counter-protesters as they exited the metro stop at the end of their short trip before marching to the site of their rally near the White House. 12, 2018.Įarlier in the day, before the protests began, the white nationalists gathered at a metro station in Northern Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., to travel into the nation’s capital. Members of the 'alt-right' clash with counter-protesters as they enter Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally, Aug. And if I can come down and show that people are supporting them, that we are against fascism and xenophobia, racism, then at least I did something as a human being.”ĭemonstrators against racism march along city streets as they mark the anniversary of last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, Aug.

And I just wanted to show my brothers and sisters my support because I don’t know their struggle on a daily basis. “I just felt, as a white woman, that I wanted to show my solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. “I'm scared for my friends that are immigrants, I'm scared for my black friends, my brown friends,” said Sink-Barth. military officer and stay-at-home mother of two teenagers, also attended the counter-protest and referred to Kessler and his group as a “bunch of Nazis.” “Being black in America is a very difficult thing at the moment so I wanted to be out here…I feel like sitting at home is not really going to do anything.” injunction that allowed the Unite the Right rally to proceed in Lee Park. It’s mind-boggling to think that in 2018, we're still doing this,” said Gaysue. On May 13, 2017, white supremacist Richard Spencer organized a protest against. “You hear about it but to actually be here, see, experience it, is something I can’t describe.

Marcia Gaysue, a web content manager from nearby Silver Spring, Maryland, who joined the counter-protests, said she felt uneasy about being in the same vicinity as white supremacists. Demonstrators participating in a white nationalist-led rally are led away by Secret Service personnel in downtown Washington, D.C., August 12, 2018.