48 hours in Charlottesville

A visual timeline of Charlottesville's harrowing weekend of violence

Overview of protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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(Image credit: (Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto/Sipa USA/Newscom)Friday night, hundreds of white nationalists carrying lit tiki torches marched through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville. As they)

(Image credit: (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)The "Unite the Right" rally was organized in protest of the slated removed of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park. The event was to st)

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(Image credit: (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)Thousands of "Unite the Right" demonstrators, many of whom were wearing Nazi and white supremacist paraphernalia, began gathering around the Lee statue hours earlier t)

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(Image credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Tensions and shouting quickly escalated into all-out brawls. White nationalists charged a chain of counter-protesters standing near the entrance of the park. Pr)

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(Image credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)At 1:45 p.m. a car, allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr., 20, plowed into a group of peaceful protesters. One person — Heather Heyer, 32, a local paralegal)

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(Image credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)On Saturday afternoon, President Trump made a statement denouncing the violence and bigotry "on many sides" without specifically condemning white supremacists o)

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(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jim Bourg)On Sunday morning, church services across the city evoked sentiments of love during times of hate, while state police in riot gear stationed themselves around the unusually)

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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.

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