(17 Aug 2017) Hundreds of people gathered at the University of Virginia campus on Wednesday evening for a candlelight vigil against hate and violence, days after Charlottesville erupted in chaos during a white nationalist rally.
Marchers assembled peacefully in the same place where hundreds of torch-carrying white nationalists marched on Friday, when several fights broke out.
That was followed on Saturday by clashes between rally attendees and those protesting them in the city's streets.
The group moved slowly through the campus on Wednesday evening before singing several spirituals and observing a moment of silence for the three lives lost during Saturday's violence.
A memorial was held earlier in the day for 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who was mowed down by a car as she protested the white nationalist rally.
Two Virginia state troopers also died in the crash of their helicopter, which was monitoring the rally.
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