4 White Nationalists Hit With Federal Charges Over Charlottesville Hate Rally
Federal authorities on Tuesday announced charges against four white supremacists involved in last year’s deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In the charges, first reported by HuffPost, a U.S. attorney accused four members of the California-based white supremacist Rise Above Movement of conspiracy to riot. Cole Evan White, Benjamin Drake Daley, Michael Paul Miselis, and Thomas Walter Gillen traveled from California to Charlottesville where they acted on a plot to commit violence, according to a criminal complaint. All four were arrested in California this morning, U.S. Attorney Thomas T. Cullen said in a press conference.
The charges join a litany of civil and criminal cases stemming from the rally, where a neo-Nazi drove a car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing one woman and seriously wounding others.
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