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| White supremacists clash with anti-fascist campaigners ahead of far-right rally in Virginia | White supremacists clash with anti-fascist campaigners ahead of far-right rally in Virginia |
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| Violence has broken out ahead of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, forcing city and county authorities to declare a state of emergency. | |
| Police have now declared the gathering an unlawful assembly and have moved in to disperse the crowds. | |
| The state police, has been deployed, with riot police and the National Guard waiting in the wings. | |
| Right-wing protesters clashed with counter-demonstrators before the "Unite the Right" rally against plans to remove a statue honouring a Confederate general from a Charlottesville park. | |
| Pepper spray—used, reportedly, by both counter-protesters and those attending the rally—filled the air, local media said. | |
| Bottles were thrown and a number of fist fights broke out. | |
| But initially there did not appear to have been a large police presence around the groups of fighting protesters. | |
| Earlier in the day apparent militia members had been filmed marching through the streets armed with assault rifles and wearing tactical gear. | Earlier in the day apparent militia members had been filmed marching through the streets armed with assault rifles and wearing tactical gear. |
| Other demonstrators were heard to chant the Nazi-linked phrase "blood and soil" as they passed through the streets. | |
| And on Friday night neo-Nazi protesters brandishing flaming torches descended on the University of Virginia, brawling with counter-protesters and throwing Nazi salutes. | |
| The state's governor, Terry McAuliffe said on Friday: "Many of the individuals coming to Charlottesville tomorrow are doing so in order to express viewpoints many people, including me, find abhorrent." | |
| He urged people to stay away and "deny those ideas more attention than they deserve". | |
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