Police Probe Assault of Officer During Charlottesville March

Officers kept the peace at this weekend’s protests and counter-protests a year after a deadly far-right rally. Authorities made several arrests in Charlottesville and in northern Virginia, where a small group of right-wing demonstrators took the Metro to their rally outside the White House.

Authorities said a man heading to the “Unite the Right 2” rally in Washington was arrested Sunday for assaulting two Virginia police officers. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller tells WTOP-FM that Donald Franklin Georgette, 30, was arrested after spitting at the officers outside the Vienna/Fairfax/George Mason University Metro station.

Meanwhile, in Charlottesville, police made several arrests as hundreds marched Saturday in a demonstration against the far-right “Unite the Right” rally that left one dead and others injured a year ago. That march was overwhelmingly peaceful as well, but Charlottesville Police say they’re investigating an alleged assault of an officer who approached a man whose face was covered. Police say the officer and the man fell to the ground. Others pulled them apart, enabling the masked man to get away. No one was injured, and the march continued.

 
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