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Post by Admin on Aug 14, 2017 19:47:55 GMT
One day after a car plowed into a group of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., the victim of that attack has been identified as Heather Heyer. The Charlottesville resident was 32 years old. Two state troopers, Pilot Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, also died Saturday, when their helicopter crashed en route to the scene of the violence. Dozens of other people were treated for injuries throughout the day, including 19 from the car crash. Heyer's friend and co-worker Courtney Commander told NPR that the two of them had debated whether to go to this weekend's counterprotest and that Heyer was worried about the potential of violence. "She said to us many times like 'I want to go so bad, but I just don't want to die. I'm so scared because these people are so serious,' and she was the only one that lost her life," said Commander, who worked with Heyer at Miller Law Group in Charlottesville. "I just feel so bad."
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2017 19:46:26 GMT
Heather D. Heyer died standing up for what she believed in. Friends described her as a passionate advocate for the disenfranchised who was often moved to tears by the world’s injustices. That sense of conviction led her to join demonstrators protesting a rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. “We were just marching around, spreading love — and then the accident happened,” a friend, Marissa Blair, said. “In a split second you see a car, and you see bodies flying.” The authorities said Ms. Heyer, 32, was killed when a car driven by a man from Ohio plowed into the crowd.
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Post by Admin on Aug 16, 2017 20:06:28 GMT
WATCH: Funeral services for Heather Heyer, who was killed on Saturday after a car drove into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A woman killed when a suspected white nationalist crashed his car into anti-racist demonstrators in Charlottesville was remembered Wednesday at a memorial service in the Virginia college city. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed after hours of clashes Saturday between white nationalists attending a “Unite the Right” gathering and people who were protesting that rally. Mark Heyer, her father, told the audience of about 1,000 people at the memorial service that no father should have to bury his child. He said his daughter wanted to put down hatred. The service for Heyer was held at the site of the deadly rally. Many of those attending wore purple, Heyer’s favorite color, in her memory.
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2017 19:04:25 GMT
In an auditorium filled to capacity Wednesday, mourners in Charlottesville, Va., grieved the woman killed last weekend when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally. Many of those who gathered at the Paramount Theater to remember Heather Heyer wore her favorite color, purple. Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, gave a passionate seven-minute speech encouraging mourners to use her daughter’s memory to inspire others to fight against hate and said the outpouring of support she had received suggested that many people share the same values her daughter espoused. “We don’t all have to die, we don’t all have to sacrifice our lives. They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well, guess what — you just magnified her.”
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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2017 19:12:02 GMT
Standing in the dappled shade of a driveway hundreds of miles from Charlottesville, Va., Mark Heyer spoke of the violence that claimed his daughter's life — and, with voice occasionally quavering, called on people to answer hate with forgiveness. "My daughter was a strong woman that had passionate opinions about the equality of everyone — and she tried to stand up for that," the Sharpes, Fla., resident told Florida Today in a videotaped interview. "With her, it wasn't lip service. It was real."
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