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If you’re still attempting to make some type of logical sense over the deplorable events that transpired over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, VICE News Tonight’s stirring documentary Charlottesville: Race and Terror provides you with a difficult to watch, immensely important behind-the-scenes look at Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally. A group of white nationalists, which included neo-nazis, skinheads, and Ku Klux Klan members, met, ostensibly, to protest the city’s plans to remove a Confederate statue from a local park.
By Saturday evening, three people were dead — one protester and two police officers — and many more were injured.
VICE News Tonight correspondent Elle Reeve was on hand to cover the event, resulting in this power 22-minute documentary. Featuring heinous language and harrowing footage of a cowardly driver slamming his car into a crowd of counterprotesters and taking the life of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, Charlottesville: Race and Terror is a documentary to viewed with caution.
“They’re supposedly here to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee,” Reeve said of the “Unite the Right” rally, “but they’re really here to show that they’re more than an internet meme, that they’re a big, real presence that can organize in physical space.”
“The fact that nobody on our side died I’d go ahead and call that points for us,” Christopher Cantwell, a white nationalist speaker for “Unite the Right” told Reeve. “The fact that none of our people killed anybody unjustly, I think is a plus for us. And I think that we showed our rivals that we won’t be cowed.”
“But the car that struck a protester,” Reeve countered, “that’s unprovoked.”
Cantwell disagreed, going on to say that he believed it was “more than justified.”
Charlottesville: Race and Terror can also be streamed for free on VICE’s Facebook page.
