Three White Supremacists Sentenced on ‘Riot Charges’ From Charlottesville Rally

on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 12: White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they enter Emancipation Park during the "Unite the Right" rally August 12, 2017 in Charl... CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 12: White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they enter Emancipation Park during the "Unite the Right" rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. After clashes with anti-fascist protesters and police the rally was declared an unlawful gathering and people were forced out of Emancipation Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia announced Friday that three white supremacists have been sentenced to between two and three years in prison after helping start a riot at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis and Thomas Gillen were all part of a white supremacist group called the Rise Above Movement.

“These defendants, motivated by hateful ideology, incited and committed acts of violence in Charlottesville, as well at other purported political rallies in California,” U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen said in a statement. “They were not interested in peaceful protest or lawful First Amendment expression; instead, they intended to provoke and engage in street battles with those that they perceived as their enemies. I am grateful for the diligence and hard work of the FBI and Virginia State Police in bringing these violent white supremacists to justice.”

The rally, about which President Donald Trump made his infamous “fine people on both sides” comment, resulted in the death of Heather Heyer when a white supremacist rammed a car into a crowd of counter-protesters.

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  1. Michael Miselis, a Northrop Grumman systems engineer by day and White Nationalist on the weekends. Sort of lays to rest that it’s only the poorly educated economically worried that is a Trumper.

  2. The thing is, though, they’re going to prison where they will be welcomed as heroes and martyrs by the alt-right gangs. And where they will network. This is how a cancer metastasizes.

  3. motivated by hateful ideology

    That hateful ideology has been relentlessly promoted by Trump, so it’s an easy step to Trump has incited acts of violence in Charlottesville, as well at other purported political rallies.

  4. These were probably some of the good people on that side, where’s their pardon for this outrage?

  5. just like that jerk who makes the ‘dilbert’ cartoons and the guy who lost his tech job when he complained that he couldn’t point out the gender inferiority of women at work - economic anxiety my aunt fanny

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