White nationalists who carried torches in Charlottesville in 2017 indicted

Recently unsealed indictments come almost six years after gathering that resulted in violent clashes with counter-protesters

Nearly six years after a gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville erupted in violent clashes with counter-protesters, a grand jury in Virginia indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate.

The Albemarle county commonwealth’s attorney said in a news release that the indictments relate to events on 11 August 2017, when white nationalists carrying torches marched through the campus of the University of Virginia.