PROSECUTORS CHARGE 2 IN CALIFORNIA WHITE NATIONALIST RALLY

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Jul 18, 9:29 PM EDT
BY DON THOMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California authorities announced charges Tuesday against two people after a violent melee during a white nationalist group's rally outside the California state Capitol building last year, a number that falls far short of the 101 people the California Highway Patrol recommended charging.

The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office said other arrests are expected, but prosecutors rejected numerous other charges the highway patrol sought after its eight-month investigation.

Investigators could not learn the identities of those committing the most violent offenses, Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Grippi said in a statement, and the district attorney's office is not pursuing many of the more minor recommended charges.

Fourteen people had stab wounds, cuts and bruises after more than 300 counter-protesters, many of them wearing masks, confronted about 30 members of the Traditionalist Worker Party in June 2016. Two of the injured people survived critical stabbings.



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[Igel]

1. The first sentence removes the chance for bad inferences.

" California authorities announced charges Tuesday against a white nationalist and a counter-protester after a violent melee outside the California state Capitol building last year, a number that falls far short of the 101 people the California Highway Patrol recommended charging."

One white nationalist, one counter-protester. There is balance in the Force.