A 2017 protest in Charlottesville, Virginia – against the removal of a Confederate monument there – turned into tragedy when a white supremacist turned criminal, driving into the crowd and killing one. He’s in jail now.

Still, what’s probably is remembered most about that day is what could be called a “big lie,” a charge used and re-used by Democrats that President Trump said there were “very fine people” on “both sides” there that day.

It was Larry Elder who explained in a WND commentary what Trump really said.

And that would be, “I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. … And I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists – because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.”

He then added, “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”

The “lie” about what he said now, Elder explained, “has become an article of faith for Trump haters,” and Joe Biden repeatedly has used it.

But now a report from NBC News is explaining the day could become known for something else, too.

Felony charges brought against protesters six years after the fact, and after other prosecutors had rejected the cases.

The report said a grand jury, at the behest of the Albemarle County prosecutor, has indicted multiple people on charges of “carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate.”

James Hingeley, the prosecutor, already has confirmed three defendants in such cases, William Zachary Smith, of Nacona, Texas; Tyler Bradley Dykes, of Bluffton, South Carolina; and Dallas Medina, of Ravenna, Ohio.

Each is accused of one count of “burning an object with the intent of intimidating a person or group of people.”

NBC noted the “almost six years” after the fact that the charges were delivered.

The Gateway Pundit explained Hingeley had campaigned on prosecuting the marchers after his predecessor declined to do so.

That situation is similar to the charges brought against President Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg after his own office, the Federal Election Commission and other federal prosecutors earlier had said there was no case.

Hingeley said, “There are so many people in our community … who were there on August 11 who were terrorized by torch-wielding terrorists. There’s a law, a burning objects law, that says they can be prosecuted but our prosecutor’s not doing that.”

This article was originally published by the WND News Center.

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