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   Four members of alt-right 'fight club' charged with inciting riot in   
   Charlottesville   
      
      
   CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WSET) — Federal prosecutors in Virginia say multiple   
   arrests have been made in connection with a white nationalist torch-lit   
   march and rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year.   
      
      
   Four men have been arrested and are facing riot and conspiracy to riot   
   charges.   
      
      
   The affidavit shows Benjamin Drake Daley, Michael Paul Miselis, Thomas   
   Walter Gillen, and Cole Evan White are all facing charges.   
      
   Prosecutors claim they are members and associates of the "Rise Above   
   Movement," (RAM) a militant white-supremacist organization based in   
   Southern California, who had traveled to Charlottesville with the intent   
   to encourage, promote, incite, participate in, and commit violent acts in   
   furtherance of a riot.   
      
   According to an online article, entitled "DIY Division: The Violent neo-   
   Nazi Group Central to the California Alt-Right and Alt-Light Protest   
   Movements," DIY, which later re-branded itself as RAM, subscribes to   
   "equal parts Identity Evropa's flaccid identitarian discourse ... and the   
   fetishization of masculinity, physical fitness, and violence mixed with   
   the shallow anti -corporate and anti -consumerist themes of the film Fight   
   Club. Propaganda by the group .. . contains ... fascistic themes of   
   emasculated young white men needing to reclaim their identities through   
   learning to fight and engaging in purifying violence."   
      
   Prosecutors said the group meets in public parks in California to train in   
   physical fitness, boxing, and other fighting techniques.   
      
   Daley is seen in several photographs posted to the group's Twitter   
   account.   
      
   RAM and its members openly identify themselves on various social media   
   platforms as "alt-right" and "nationalist" and frequently posts videos and   
   photographs of its adherents engaged in vigorous physical training and   
   mixed martial arts (MMA) street-fighting techniques in order to prepare to   
   engage in fighting and violence at political rallies, prosecutors said.   
      
      
   The press conference about these charges is beginning.   
      
   Daley, Miselis, Gillen, and White, along with other RAM members, are   
   accused of traveling to Charlottesville from California for the tiki torch   
   rally on UVA's campus on August 11, 2017 and participating in violent   
   encounters in Charlottesville.   
      
   The four are also accused of being involved with several riots in   
   California.   
      
   FBI said their investigation revealed that the four men attended the tiki   
   torch rally at UVA and then the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville   
   between August 11 - August 12 and "committed multiple acts of violence   
   against counter protesters, which in some cases resulted in serious   
   injuries."   
      
   White was seen using his torch as a weapon on at least two occasions   
   during the riot on UVA's campus.   
      
   FBI said Daley admitted to using a chemical spray on counter-protesters at   
   the torch rally.   
      
   Daley and other members of RAM are seen in video footage committing acts   
   of violence and assaulting counter-protesters by punching, kicking, and   
   headbutting them in downtown Charlottesville during the 'Unite the Right'   
   rally on August 12.   
      
   In other video, prosecutors said White can be seen headbutting a female   
   counter-protester while Daley helps him with the assault.   
      
   Miselis is seen in video footage shoving an African-American to the ground   
   and then hitting him -- his fists were seen taped in the manner of boxers   
   and MMA fighters.   
      
   All four defendants have been charged with one count of conspiracy to   
   violate the federal riots statute and one count of violating the federal   
   riots statute.   
      
   "These arrests are also a stark reminder that the threat of white   
   supremacist violence in the United States is real and growing. We cannot   
   be complacent or pretend it isn’t real or can’t happen here. I will   
   continue to press the Virginia General Assembly for stronger tools to   
   prevent white supremacist violence, and to hold accountable those whose   
   hateful ideology drives them to violence," said Attorney General Mark   
   Herring.   
      
   A woman was killed during the rally and dozens of others were injured when   
   a speeding car plowed into a group of counterdemonstrators. The suspected   
   driver, James Fields Jr., has been charged with federal hate crimes in the   
   death of Heather Heyer. Fields also faces state murder charges.   
      
      
      
   https://keprtv.com/news/nation-world/multiple-people-arrested-over-2017-   
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