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Posted: 2017-08-12T14:24:44Z | Updated: 2017-08-15T14:24:54Z
  • Three people are dead and at least 35 have been treated for injuries following a white supremacist rally and a helicopter crash in the Charlottesville, Virginia, area.

  • At one point a car plowed into an anti-racist group amid clashes between white supremacist activists, some armed, and anti-fascist protesters.

  • Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) declared a state of emergency on Saturday afternoon.

  • President Donald Trump blamed many sides for the unrest.

  • Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a federal investigation into the violence at the rally. The FBI and the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Western District of Virginia have also launched a civil rights investigation into the fatal car crash.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Thousands of white supremacists and armed militia groups faced off with counter-protesters during a violent and chaotic rally that raged for hours in this Virginia city on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of at least three people.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who declared a state of emergency Saturday afternoon, condemned the violence during a press conference that evening, sending a message to the white supremacists.

Our message is plain and simple: Go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth, he said. Shame on you.

Please go home and never come back. Take your hatred, and take your bigotry, McAuliffe added.

Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas said 35 people were treated for injuries by city personnel on Saturday, with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.

Three people died Saturday, including a 32-year-old woman who was hit by a car that plowed into a group of counter-demonstrators and two others who perished in a helicopter crash near the protests.

James Alex Fields Jr., 20, was arrested in connection with the car incident. He was charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of failing to stop at an accident resulting in a death, police Col. Martin Kumer told HuffPost.

It was just terrifying, said 23-year-old Thomas Pilnik, a Charlottesville resident who witnessed the crash. I remember people flying into me, telling me to run and get out of the way and watching people fly like they were just bowling pins.