08/13/2026
Fellow Workers Remember.
On this day, 12 August 2017, 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and dozens injured in a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Heyer was one of thousands of people protesting against a Unite the Right rally of neo-N**is, Ku Klux Klan activists and other white nationalists and antisemites, when she was hit by a car driven at speed deliberately into the crowd by a 20-year-old N**i, who was pictured previously on the Unite the Right protest holding a shield emblazoned with the logo of Vanguard America, a far right group.
Elsewhere in the city, another group of fascists attacked and viciously beat DeAndre Harris, a young Black education worker, leaving him with spinal and other injuries.
Then-president Donald Trump described some of the neo-N**is as "very fine people".
Over the next few years, over 100 other vehicular attacks took place, mostly targeted at Black Lives Matter protesters, killing several and injuring dozens.
Republican lawmakers responded by attempting to introduce laws to legalise attacks, or prevent lawsuits against attackers who killed protesters with their vehicles in at least 15 states, successfully introducing them in states such as Florida, Iowa and Oklahoma.
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