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Demonstrators held a peaceful vigil in Charlottesville days after deadly rally

Madeleine Sheehan PerkinsAug 17, 2017, 09:47 IST

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Demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, held a peaceful vigil Wednesday evening in the wake of the deadly violence the town faced last weekend.

During the "Unite the Right" rally on Saturday, held by white supremacists and neo-Nazis to protest the removal of a Confederate statue, a car driven by James Fields Jr. plowed into counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring many others.

Speaking at a service Wednesday afternoon, Heyer's mother told a crowd, "They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what? You just magnified her," Reuters reported.

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Demonstrators held a peaceful vigil in Charlottesville days after deadly rally

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