James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year-old neo-Nazi who allegedly injured 35 people and killed one woman when he plowed his car through a crowd of anti-fascists at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, has been charged with first-degree murder.
Fields was charged in the killing of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, a counter-protester who was peacefully demonstrating against white supremacists. On Thursday, prosecutor Joe Platania announced the charge against Fields had been upgraded from second-degree murder to first-degree, after testimony from law enforcement officials cited evidence that Fields intentionally crashed his car into the protesters.
The Washington Post reports that Fields has also been “charged with eight counts of ‘aggravated malicious wounding,’ meaning that at least eight of the 35 people who were hurt suffered what Virginia law describes as ‘permanent and significant physical impairment.’”
James Fields walked into the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, on a school trip two years ago and told a classmate he was “where the magic happened.”
Several students who attended Randall K. Cooper High School with Fields in Union, Kentucky, recalled him as an angry young man who spoke admiringly about the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.
At Dachau, Fields looked like “a kid at an amusement park,” said the classmate, who asked not to be identified for fear of being targeted.
“He would read excerpts from Mein Kampf, and listen to Nazi propaganda music at night,” the classmate told Reuters.
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“I have a message for all the White Supremacists, and the Nazis who came into Charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple: Go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth.”
“Shame on you. You pretend you are patriots, but you are anything but a patriot. You want to talk about patriots, talk about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, who brought our country together. You want to think about the patriots today, think about the young men and women wearing the cloth of our country. Somewhere around the globe they’re putting their life in danger. They’re patriots. You are not.”
"You came here today to hurt people, and you did hurt people. But my message is clear. We are stronger than you. You have made our commonwealth stronger. You will not succeed. There is no place for you here. There is no place for you in America. We work here today to bring people together, to unify folks."
"I'll remind you all that we are a nation of immigrants. Unless you're Native American, the first ships that came to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, and since that time, many people have come to our great country to unite us. Our diversity, that mosaic tile of immigrants is what makes us so special and we will not let anybody come here and destroy it."
"So please, GO HOME and NEVER COME BACK. Take your hatred and take your bigotry. There is no place. And if I could give you a piece of advice, use your time and energy to help people."
"Come with me to help a veteran to find a job or a place to live. That's what we need help on to bring people together."
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James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio was booked on charges of murder, hit and run, malicious wounding and failure to stop for accident involving a death.
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