Charlottesville violence: white supremacist Unite the Right rally leads to state of emergency in Virginia

White supremacists descended on Charlottesville to protest the city’s plan to take down Confederate monuments. But the demonstrations quickly got violent, as the white supremacists intimidated and attacked counterprotesters — and then a car, driven by a man with the white supremacists, rammed into counterprotesters.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s reaction — or lack thereof — became a major story in its own right after he refused to condemn the white supremacists in particular, initially blaming “many sides” for hatred, bigotry, and violence.