WATCHED STATION, THIS IS WCCO
NEWS.
THANKS FOR JOINING US.
I'M ANGELA DAVIS.
TONIGHT, MINNESOTANS ARE
JOINING PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE
COUNTRY WHO ARE HOLDING PRAYER
VIGILS IN RESPONSE TO
SATURDAY'S DEADLY PROTEST IN
ARCHDIOCESE, WEST VIRGINIA.
A -- IN ARCHDIOCESE, WEST
VIRGINIA.
POLICE SAY A -- IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA.
POLICE SAY A YOUNG MAN PLOWED
INTO THE CROWD OF PROTESTORS.
THEY WERE RALLYING AGAINST THE
PLANNED REMOVAL OF A
CONFEDERATE STATUE.
MANY MARCHED AROUND THE LAKE TO
TAKE A STAND AGAINST RACISM.
THIS WAS ONE OF MANY VIGILS
AROUND THE NATION THIS EVENING.
ONE PERSON AT LAKE CALHOUN
TONIGHT WENT TO THE UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA AND LIVED IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE.
WANT TO REPRESENT FOR MY
ALMA MATER AND SAY, YOU KNOW,
WE DON'T SUPPORT THIS SORT OF
THING AT ALL.
AND IT'S IMPORTANT ALSO TO BE
JOINING MY FRIENDS HERE IN
MINNESOTA TO SAY IT'S NOT JUST
IN WEST VIRGINIA.
IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE.
AND WE DON'T WANT IT HERE IN
MINNESOTA.
LIVE IN MINNEAPOLIS AS THAT
RALLY IS WRAPPING UP.
Reporter: YES, ANGELA.
DESPITE SOME RAIN, THE RALLY
WENT ON TONIGHT.
AND TRANSGENDER STUDENTS A VERY
SPECIFIC REASON ON WHY IT WAS
HERE.
YOU CAN SEE THE -- AND THERE'S
A VERY SPECIFIC REASON WHY IT
WAS HERE.
YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE ARE.
YOU COULD JUST TELL THERE WAS
TENSION AROUND THE COUNTRY AND
RIGHT HERE.
Reporter: THIS IS THE SCENE
THAT HAS PEOPLE ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY HOLDING VIGIL FROM
BOSTON TO CALIFORNIA.
PEOPLE ARE MOURNING THE LIFE OF
A 32-YEAR-OLD, HEATHER HEYER.
SHE WAS PROTESTING A WHITE
NATIONALIST RALLY WHEN OFFICERS
SAY A RALLY SUPPORTER JAMES
FIELDS PLOWED THROUGH THE CROWD
WITH HIS CAR.
WE CONDEMN IN THE STRONGEST
POSSIBLE TERMS THIS EGREGIOUS
DISPLAY OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND
VIOLENCE ON MANY SIDES, ON MANY
SIDES.
Reporter: SUNDAY, THE
PRESIDENT'S REPUBLICAN
COLLEAGUES ARE REACTING TO HIS
RESPONSE SAYING HE SHOULD
DIRECTLY DENOUNCE WHITE
SUPREMACY AND THE KKK.
I WOULD URGE THE PRESIDENT
TO DISSUADE THEM OF THE FACT
THAT HE'S SYMPATHETIC TO THEIR
CAUSE BECAUSE THEIR CAUSE IS
HATE.
IT IS UN-AMERICAN.
THEY ARE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.
AND WE NEED MORE FROM OUR
PRESIDENT ON THIS ISSUE.
MANY IN THE NATIONAL MEDIA
SPEND MORE TIME CRITICIZING THE
PRESIDENT'S WORDS THAN THEY DID
CRITICIZING THOSE WHO
PERPETRATED THE VIOLENCE TO
BEGIN WITH.
WE SHOULD BE PUTTING THE
ATTENTION WHERE IT BELONGS.
AND THAT IS ON THESE EXTREMIST
GROUPS THAT NEED TO BE PUSHED
OUT OF THE PUBLIC DEBATE
ENTIRELY AND DISCREDITED FOR
THE HATE GROUPS AND DANGEROUS
FRINGE GROUPS THAT THEY ARE.
Reporter: WHITE NATIONALIST
RALLY ORGANIZER ADDRESSED WHAT
HAPPENED IN A VERY INTENSE NEWS
CONFERENCE.
THE HATE THAT YOU HEAR
AROUND YOU, THAT IS THE
ANTIWHITE HATE!
THAT FUELED WHAT HAPPENED
YESTERDAY.
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY WAS THE
RESULT OF THE CHARLOTTESVILLE
POLICE OFFICERS REFUSING TO DO
THEIR JOB!
Reporter: HE WAS ESCORTED
OFF AND THE PRESSURE MOUNTED.
I DISENVOW ANY POLITICAL
VIOLENCE.
AND WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY WAS
TRAGIC.
HER NAME WAS HEATHER, SIR!
HER NAME WAS HEATHER, JASON!
HER BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS!
Reporter: CHARLOTTESVILLE
LOCALS GAVE AN APPLAUSE TO
POLICE OFFICERS FOR STEPPING IN
TO SLOW DOWN NATIONALISTS.
A RALLY FAR FROM OVER.
Reporter: YOU DID HEAR VICE
PRESIDENT PENCE DID GET
SPECIFIC THIS AFTERNOON
DENOUNCING THE VIOLENCE, NAMING
THE GROUPS BY NAME.
THERE WAS ALSO A TWEET THAT
WENT OUT BY THE PRESIDENT'S
DAUGHTER, IVANKA TRUMP.
SHE SAYS THERE'S NO PLACE IN
SOCIETY FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS,
NEONAZI, AND RACISM.
GETTING MORE SPECIFIC THERE.
THANK YOU, SUSAN ELIZABETH.
WE KNOW PEOPLE NORTHWEST OF
THE TWIN CITIES CAME TOGETHER
TONIGHT TO PRAY FOR THE VICTIMS
IN CHARLOTTESVILLE.
THE CHURCH IN ELK RIVER HELD A
PRAYER VIGIL, SAYING THEY'RE
STANDING IN PEACE AGAINST THE
RACISM.
THE DRIVER OF THE CAR USED IN
THE ATTACK, JAMES FIELDS, WILL
MAKE HIS FIRST COURT APPEARANCE
TOMORROW MORNING.
HE'S FACING SECOND DEGREE
MURDER.
TWO VIRGINIA STATE TROOPERS
DIED SATURDAY WHEN THEIR
HELICOPTER CRASHED.
THEY WERE MONITORING THE
CHARLOTTESVILLE PROTESTORS FROM
THE AIR.
THE NTSB IS STILL INVESTIGATING