KKK leader ‘glad’ woman died in Charlottesville attack: report
A Ku Klux Klan leader said he was “glad” a woman was killed while protesting a racist rally in Charlottesville, Va., according to a report Tuesday.
Justin Moore, the “grand dragon” of the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of Ku Klux Klan, made the remark in a voicemail left for a reporter at WBTV in Charlotte, NC, the station said.
“I’m sorta glad that them people got hit, and I’m glad that girl died,” Moore said.
“To me, they were a bunch of communists out there protesting against somebody’s freedom of speech, so it doesn’t bother me that they got hurt at all.”
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Moore also predicted that “we’re going to see more stuff like this happening at white-nationalist events.”
Members of the Loyal White Knights took part in Saturday’s “Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville against plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a downtown park, the station said.
City resident Heather Heyer, 32, was killed and 19 others were injured when a car rammed into a crowd of counter-protesters.
Nazi fanatic James Alex Fields Jr., 20, was arrested a short time later and charged with second-degree murder and related crimes.
He had been photographed hours earlier, holding a shield and wearing clothing associated with the fascist Vanguard America group, which later said he was not a member.
