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'We Are Resilient': Memorials, Heavy Police Presence Mark Charlottesville Anniversary

A year after white supremacists marched through town with tiki torches, Charlottesville residents say they wanted people to know the city "isn't a hashtag."
Workers enclose a statue of Robert E. Lee near downtown Charlottesville, Va. The statue and the park in which it's located were the center of last year's Unite the Right rally.

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In downtown Charlottesville, Va., authorities are limiting car and pedestrian traffic, dozens of police in riot gear are patrolling a park in the city's center and some residents have left town in case the weekend turns violent.

Sunday is the first anniversary of the deadly , the white supremacist march that boiled into a

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