Victim in Charlottesville Beating Video Facing Arrest
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White nationalists beat Deandre Harris on video. Now thereâs a warrant out for Harrisâ arrest.
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A Charlottesville, Virginia, magistrate issued an arrest warrant for Deandre Harris, a young black man who was filmed being beaten with pipes during an August white supremacist rally, WCPO reports. Police said they would explain the reason for the âunlawful woundingâ warrant after Harrisâ arrest. One alleged attacker, an 18-year-old whom classmates described as anti-Semitic, has been charged in the beating, after Harris used social media to help identify his attackers. Harrisâ attorney called the warrant for Harrisâ arrest âclearly retaliatory.â On Twitter, white nationalists celebrated the charges.