The following email was sent out by Black Lives Matter activist and New York Daily News columnist Shaun King calling for the arrest of five white supremacists who brutally assaulted a young antifascist activist named, Deandre Williams, in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday.
Friends,
We need your help.
This weekend, 20 year old Deandre Harris was brutally assaulted by a group of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia – leaving him with critical injuries from the assault.
At least five men participated in this assault – which was a felony. Many of them used deadly weapons. Others were overheard using racial slurs – making it a federal hate crime. What these men did was not just wrong – it was a crime.
The police there expressed very little concern about any of it – frequently seeing violence and crimes and literally looking away. In fact, Deandre was assaulted in the parking…
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