White supremacists descended on Charlottesville to protest the city’s plan to take down Confederate monuments. But the demonstrations quickly got violent, as the white supremacists intimidated and attacked counterprotesters — and then a car, driven by a man with the white supremacists, rammed into counterprotesters.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s reaction — or lack thereof — became a major story in its own right after he refused to condemn the white supremacists in particular, initially blaming “many sides” for hatred, bigotry, and violence.