Peaceful Protest Planned In Response To Virginia Violence In Atlantic County Sunday

Several local groups are responding to Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which three people were killed and dozens more were injured in riots related to a Nazi-flavored white nationalist rally.

A rally to "Stand in Solidarity With Charlottesville" will take place at the Greek Temple Monument War Memorial at Albany and Ventnor avenues in Atlantic City at noon on Sunday.

"We are standing in solidarity with Charlottesville," the groups said in a statement on the website for the event. "Join us. Time/location may change as we coordinate with additional local groups!"

Updates will be posted on the event's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/104680470257315/?ti=icl.

At least one person was killed and 19 others were injured after a car plowed into a group of people at the rally on Saturday. The driver of the car, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., of Ohio was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and hit-and-run attended failure to stop with injury.

A few hours later, a state police helicopter that had been helping to monitor Saturday's events crashed in a wooded area, killing both troopers who were aboard the chopper. They were identified as Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, 48, of Midlothian, Va., and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates of Quinton, Va. Both troopers died at the scene.

The incident followed a march by hundreds of white nationalists Friday night, holding torches while chanting anti-Semitic slurs.

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Photo: Officers clash with counter protestors after the Ku Klux Klan staged a protest on July 8, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, photo by Chet Strange/Getty Images News/Getty Images