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| Charlottesville mayor says car-ramming incident ‘terrorist attack with car used as weapon’ | Charlottesville mayor says car-ramming incident ‘terrorist attack with car used as weapon’ |
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| Both the mayor of Charlottesville, Mike Signer, and President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, have labeled the car attack at a Virginia rally on Saturday an act of terrorism. Police have not made any statements about the motive of the driver yet. | Both the mayor of Charlottesville, Mike Signer, and President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, have labeled the car attack at a Virginia rally on Saturday an act of terrorism. Police have not made any statements about the motive of the driver yet. |
| The incident occurred at a white supremacists' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a car rammed into a crowd, killing one person and injuring over a dozen others. | The incident occurred at a white supremacists' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a car rammed into a crowd, killing one person and injuring over a dozen others. |
| Speaking with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning, Signer said that the attack, in which a car plowed through a crowd of counter-protesters to the far-right rally, was “a clear terrorist attack with a car used as a weapon.” | Speaking with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning, Signer said that the attack, in which a car plowed through a crowd of counter-protesters to the far-right rally, was “a clear terrorist attack with a car used as a weapon.” |
| “Charlottesville is one of the great cities in the world,” Signer told the program. “We made a decision about a year and half ago, at long last, to start telling deliberately the full story of race in our city and our past, to start telling the truth. | “Charlottesville is one of the great cities in the world,” Signer told the program. “We made a decision about a year and half ago, at long last, to start telling deliberately the full story of race in our city and our past, to start telling the truth. |
| “And that put us on the map for a whole bunch of folks in this country who oppose everything about that. So what we saw this weekend was a deluge of outsiders trying to intimidate us away from that work.” | “And that put us on the map for a whole bunch of folks in this country who oppose everything about that. So what we saw this weekend was a deluge of outsiders trying to intimidate us away from that work.” |
| Signer named the victim of the car crash as 32-year-old Heather Heyer. | Signer named the victim of the car crash as 32-year-old Heather Heyer. |
| READ MORE: 20yo Ohio man charged with murder after ramming car into Charlottesville protesters & killing woman | READ MORE: 20yo Ohio man charged with murder after ramming car into Charlottesville protesters & killing woman |
| President Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, also appeared on the program and described the incident as a terrorist attack | |
| "Anytime that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it meets the definition of terrorism," McMaster said. | |
| “What you see here is a criminal act against fellow Americans. A criminal act that may have been motivated — and we'll see what's turned up in this investigation — by this hatred and bigotry, which I mentioned we have to extinguish in our nation." | |
| Charlottesville police have arrested one person in connection with the incident, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio, who has been charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of "hit and run attended failure to stop with injury." | |
| The Virginia police have not yet officially confirmed a motive for the alleged attack, but a civil rights investigation has been opened by US attorneys and the FBI. |