Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville
The plaintiffs alleged that the organizers and participants of the 2017 Unite the Right rally conspired to commit violence and interfered with their right to be free from racially motivated violence.
by James Doubek
Nov 23, 2021
3 minutes
Updated November 23, 2021 at 4:49 PM ET
A jury in Virginia has found a group of white nationalists who organized the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., liable of engaging in a conspiracy ahead of the violent demonstration, awarding the plaintiffs who brought the case more than $25 million in damages on Tuesday.
But after three days of deliberation, jurors could not reach a verdict on two separate federal
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