Man Attacked in Charlottesville Charged With Assault in Unexpected Turn [View all]
Source: NBC News
DeAndre Harris, the black man whose beating by a group of white men in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August sparked a virtual manhunt for his attackers, was charged with felony assault on Tuesday.
A white man involved in an earlier brawl that day said he was injured by Harris, and authorities drew up an arrest warrant.
But a lawyer for Harris said it wasn’t his client who committed the assault. Instead, he said, it was a group of white men.
For weeks after being attacked, Harris found himself at the center of a social media firestorm. He’d been beaten bloody by a half-dozen white men at the “Unite the Right” rally-turned-riot in Charlottesville, where a group of white nationalists and Nazis clashed violently with counter-protesters.
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