Richard Spencer, who in August led white nationalists and white supremacists in a torchlight march across the University of Virginia campus that touched off a weekend of deadly clashes, returned Saturday night to Charlottesville. Spencer, a white nationalist, posted video on social media of followers carrying torches to the statue of Robert E. Lee, which the city has sought to remove. “It was a planned flash mob,” Spencer said in an interview Saturday night. “We’re going to come back again and again and again.” Then they began singing about Dixie. Officials with the Charlottesville police department did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday night.

Source: thestar October 08, 2017 13:07 UTC