Several bouts of violence broke out at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday as demonstrators clashed with counter-protesters in the streets surrounding the park where the rally was held.
Virginia City Rocked by White Nationalist Protests
![State Police in riot gear guard Lee Park after a white nationalist demonstration was declared illegal and the park was cleared in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12, 2017. Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical](https://gdb.voanews.com/F5211D10-7973-4E1A-A3D9-C73387121580_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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State Police in riot gear guard Lee Park after a white nationalist demonstration was declared illegal and the park was cleared in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12, 2017. Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical
![White supremacists carry torches on the grounds of the University of Virginia, on the eve of a planned "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 11, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1E764EAA-6EC8-4DBB-B460-68450C3E427C_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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White supremacists carry torches on the grounds of the University of Virginia, on the eve of a planned "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 11, 2017.