This is explicitly for you and anybody else with this ridiculous line of thinking.
3. Prior to August 12, 2017, Defendant JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR. obtainedmultiple social media accounts, which he used to express his beliefs regarding race, national origin, religion and other topics.
On these accounts, FIELDS expressed and promoted his belief that white people are superior to other races and peoples; expressed support of the social and racial policies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi-era Germany, including the Holocaust;
and espoused violence against African Americans, Jewish people and members of other racial; ethnic andreligious groups he perceived to be non-white. FIELDS also expressed these views directly in interactions with individuals known to him.
5. On August I 1, 2017 , as Defendant JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR. prepared to leave his home in Maumee, Ohio, to travel to Charlottesville, Virginia, a family member sent him a text message urging him to be careful.
FIELDS replied to the text message that "We're not the ones who need to be careful." To the message, FIELDS attached an image of Adolf Hitler. FIELDS departed for Charlottesville, Virginia, shortly thereafter.
6. On or about the aftemoon of August 11,2017 , Defendant JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR. departed Maumee, Ohio, driving his gray Dodge Challenger bearing Ohio license plate GVF-1111, and arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the early moming of August 12,2017.
7. On the moming of August 12, 2017, Defendart JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR.arrived in and around the immediate vicinity of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, to attend the Unite the Right rally.
Multiple groups and individuals espousing white supremacist and other anti-Semitic & racist views also attended the rally. That morning, these rally participants, including FIELDS, engaged in chants promoting or expressing white supremacist & other racist and anti-Semitic views.
8. On August 12, 2017, shortly before the scheduled start of the Unite the Right rally, law enforcement declared an "unlawful assembly" and required rally participants, including...
Defendant JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR., to disperse. FIELDS later retumed to his vehicle and began to drive on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.
9. On August 12,2017, Defendant JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR. drove his car onto Fourth Street, a narrow, downhill, one-way street in downtown Charlottesville. At or around that same time, a racially and ethnically diverse crowd of individuals had gathered at the bottom of the hill,
at the intersection of Fourth and East Water ("Water") Streets. Many of theindividuals in the crowd were chanting and carrying signs promoting equality and protesting against racial and other forms of discrimination.
FIELDS slowly proceeded in his vehicle toward the crowd & stopped & observed the crowd while idling in his vehicle. W/ no vehicle behind him, FIELDS then slowly reversed his vehicle back toward the top of the hill, near the intersection of Fourth & East Market ("Market") Streets.
10. At or around that same time, the members of the crowd began to walk up Fourth Street toward Market Street, populating the streets and sidewalks between the buildings on Fourth Street.
11. At or near the top of the hill and the intersection of Fourth and Market Streets, Defendant JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR. stopped his vehicle. FIELDS rapidly accelerated, through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly into the crowd.
FIELDS's vehicle stopped only when it struck another vehicle near the intersection of Fourth and Water Streets. FIELDS then rapidly reversed his car and fled the scene.
As FIELDS drove into and through the crowd, FIELDS struck numerous individuals, killing Heather Heyer and injuring many others.
Grand Jury further finds:
21. The allegations set forth in paragraphs 1 through 11 are repeated and realleged as if set forth fully herein.
21. The allegations set forth in paragraphs 1 through 11 are repeated and realleged as if set forth fully herein.
22 As to Count Thirty, Defendant JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR.:
(a) was l8 years ofage or older at the time ofthe offense;
(b) intentionally killed Heather Heyer (18 U.S.C. $ 3591(a)(2)(A));
(a) was l8 years ofage or older at the time ofthe offense;
(b) intentionally killed Heather Heyer (18 U.S.C. $ 3591(a)(2)(A));
(c) intentionally inflicted serious bodily injury that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer (18 U.S.C. $ 3591(a)(2)(B));
(d) intentionally participated in an act, contemplating that the life of a person would be taken and intending that lethal force would be used in connection with a person, other than one of the participants in the offense,
and Heather Heyer died as a direct result of such act (18 U.S.C. $
35e l(a)(2)(c));
(e) intentionally and specifically engaged in an act of violence, knowing that the act created a grave risk of death to a person, other than one of the participants in the offense,
35e l(a)(2)(c));
(e) intentionally and specifically engaged in an act of violence, knowing that the act created a grave risk of death to a person, other than one of the participants in the offense,
such that participation in the act constituted a reckless disregard for human life and Heather Heyer died as a result of the act (18 U.S.C. $ 359t(aX2XD));
***Don't "@" me saying he was defending himself because you know it was bullshit. I know it was bullshit. Anyone with a brain know it was. Her life was taken out of hate, not fear. I hope he gets EVERYTHING coming his way.***
