Indictments Issued for Torch-Carrying Marchers in Charlottesville Rally

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Indictments Issued for Torch-Carrying Marchers in Charlottesville Rally
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A grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate during a white nationalist torch march through the campus of the University of Virginia in 2017. Three people have been indicted so far, each charged with a single count of burning an object with the intent of intimidating a person or group of people. The indictments come almost six years after violence broke out during two days of demonstrations by the largest gathering of white nationalists in a decade.

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