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Was last year’s rally in Charlottesville really protected speech? City may yet get an answer
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Virginia Mercury
The crowd hissed as a man with a full white beard and red MAGA hat approached the lectern to address Charlottesville City Council this week.
But it’s characteristic of a larger debate that’s been playing out in the city since violent white supremacists marched here last year, leaving dozens injured and a young counter protester, Heather Heyer, dead.
And a year later, Charlottesville residents remain outraged that the city granted white supremacist groups a permit to hold their infamous Aug. 12 rally in the city.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled the speech constituted a “true threat” and was not protected.
The ruling found that although “advocating violence is protected, threatening a person with violence is not.”To activists, the violent intent in Unite the Right was obvious.
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