{"id":32393,"date":"2019-02-09T00:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32393"},"modified":"2019-02-09T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:22:47","slug":"fourth-man-found-guilty-in-charlottesville-beating-of-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32393","title":{"rendered":"Fourth man found guilty in Charlottesville beating of black man"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A court has found guilty a fourth man guilty of a brutal attack on a 20-year-old African American during the deadly white nationalist<\/a> rally in Charlottesville,<\/a> Virginia, in August 2017.<\/p>\n

On Friday, 50-year-old Tyler Watkins Davis appeared in the Charlottesville Circuit Court and entered an Alford plea,\u00a0the local NBC affiliate, WVIR NBC29, reported.\u00a0<\/span> As part of a the plea, a defendant does not admit guilt, but admits there is sufficient evidence to convict him.<\/p>\n

According to the local media outlet, Davis admits the incident took place but disputes the malice part.<\/p>\n

Authorities issued Davis the charge after a group of white nationalists attacked DeAndre Harris inside a parking garage during “Unite the Right”, held on August 12, 2017.<\/p>\n

The gathering was one of the largest US white nationalist rallies in recent decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Davis was a member of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate group that was highly active in far-right violence in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pictures and a video of Harris’s attack by a group of white nationalists were shared widely online, leading to attempts to identify the perpetrators.<\/p>\n

Harris suffered a spinal injury, a broken arm and a gash in his skull that that required staples.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the Washington Post, Davis was responsible for the head injury that resulted in staples.<\/p>\n

Convictions<\/h2>\n

Including Davis, four men were arrested and convicted for the attack on Harris. The previous three were convicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last month, Daniel Borden was ordered to serve three years and 10 months. During the violence, he was photographed wearing a helmet that read “commie killer”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And in August 2018, Jacob Scott Goodwin and Alex Ramos<\/a> were sentenced to eight and six years respectively for their role in attacking Harris.<\/p>\n

Throughout the alt-right rally, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and white supremacists attacked and clashed with community members, anti-fascists and anti-racist activists across Charlottesville.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unite the Right turned deadly when a driver rammed his vehicle into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.<\/p>\n

James Alex Fields Jr, who was photographed marching with a neo-Nazi group earlier in the day, has since been charged with a slew of crimes, including federal hate crimes.<\/p>\n

The alt-right is a loosely knit movement including white nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis, among others. After Charlottesville, it fell into disunity with legal backlash and infighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A court has found guilty a fourth man guilty of a brutal attack on a 20-year-old African American during the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. On Friday, 50-year-old Tyler Watkins Davis appeared in the Charlottesville Circuit Court and entered an Alford plea,\u00a0the local NBC affiliate, WVIR NBC29, reported.\u00a0 As part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}