https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...oody-Charlottesville-White-Supremacist-attack
We’ve seen the video, we know what happened to Deandre Harris. But for some reason a magistrate in Charlottesville decided to listen to the complaints by White Supremacist Harold Crews and charge Harris with assault for swinging a flashlight at Crews while he was in the midst of trying to ram the end of a flagpole into another person.
Deandre Harris, a black man beaten and later charged with assaulting a white nationalist during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville last August, was found not guilty Friday.
After footage of Harris’ beating at the rally went viral, Harold Crews, a North Carolina lawyer and chairman of the state’s The League of the South, brought the battery charge against the man whose assault became an anti-racist rallying cry.
Shortly after the rally, Crews convinced a magistrate to file charges against Harris, who swung a flashlight at him while under the impression the white nationalist lawyer was assaulting his friend with a flagpole. Charlottesville General District Court Judge Robert Downer determined that Harris swung the flashlight accidentally.
We’ve seen the video, we know what happened to Deandre Harris. But for some reason a magistrate in Charlottesville decided to listen to the complaints by White Supremacist Harold Crews and charge Harris with assault for swinging a flashlight at Crews while he was in the midst of trying to ram the end of a flagpole into another person.
Deandre Harris, a black man beaten and later charged with assaulting a white nationalist during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville last August, was found not guilty Friday.
After footage of Harris’ beating at the rally went viral, Harold Crews, a North Carolina lawyer and chairman of the state’s The League of the South, brought the battery charge against the man whose assault became an anti-racist rallying cry.
Shortly after the rally, Crews convinced a magistrate to file charges against Harris, who swung a flashlight at him while under the impression the white nationalist lawyer was assaulting his friend with a flagpole. Charlottesville General District Court Judge Robert Downer determined that Harris swung the flashlight accidentally.
