CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Flowers and notes were seen in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 12, commemorating the four-year anniversary of a white nationalist rally that left three people dead in 2017.
The chaos on Aug. 12, 2017 boiled over at what was believed at the time to have been the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade.
The governor of Virginia declared a state of emergency, and police dressed in riot gear ordered people out. A group of white supremacists had gathered to protest plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen.