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Werent doing necessarily enough. a lot of people criticizing him for that. they did as best as they could and there were people carrying semiautomatic weapons in the crowd and they had to be cautious with their actions there. >> from what youre seeing in the video and what took place in seattle, do you believe the police are doing what theyre supposed to be doing? >> they are and theyre caught in a no-win situation because the police have to stand between the protesters who have a permit or they...

Charlottesville, three people are dead and one killed when a car rammed into a crowd of counterprotesters and two state troopers were killed in a helicopter crash. investigators are working to determine if the crash was related to the rallies. the university of virginia medical center said they are still treating 20 patients, including five in critical condition. more on the days events after the break.

Trying to get into that white nationalist group. they were there hoping for a confrontation. that did not happen because police kept that line solid. now they seem to be pushing back the opposite direction towards the park where they originated. but earlier tensions were really high. there was a police line right between -- probably about two blocks away between that white nationalist group and these counterprotesters. they were pushing back against the crowd, and the counterprotest group starte...

Were hoping that it doesnt develop to the point at which it did yesterday. i think a lot of people are hoping and praying and watching this rolling coverage that weve been seeing out of seattle washington, there. >> i want to bring in lisha brooks, the law director of the southern poverty center. talk to us about this group, patriot prayer. what do you know about them? >> they identify themselves as an alt-right group. theyre firly new. weve seen them at anti-sharia demonstrations in the past. t...

♪ >> all around a tragic situation, some might say heartbreaking what happened in the u.s. state of virginia. heres what we know so far. three people have been arrested over clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters, all of this taking place in the city of charlottesville, virginia. a car tack is now being investigated as a civil rights case. one woman died when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting white nationalists. this man is being held in connection with that cras...

What disturbed me was noticing how this group decided to conduct their -- their -- you know, their parade. they were wearing ballistic shields. they had on kevlar. some were dressed like military folks. i was in afghanistan in 2002. they were dressed like folks over there in afghanistan, folks that are the real snake eithers, the folks out there working on behalf of the united states government. i thought it was shameful. that makes it a little disconcerting because you have an area like virgini...

Seems like police are kind of pushing them, corralling them away from any conflict with that white nationalist group. so we have not seen a confrontation between those two groups. but the confrontation and the tension between counterprotesters and police continues as this situation sort of develops and morphs into something different. but at this point i can tell you that the tensions have alleviated slightly because now this group has not focused on that second group, that white nationalist gro...

Set up that demonstrate here about an hour ago in a square, in a park. theyve been holding in place probably about two blocks away from our location. but behind me you can see the police presence. you can see police in full riot gear, police with batons, police have at one point pushed this crowd back. theyve had to disperse the crowd once i believe with an agent that would disperse the crowd. i believe that was teargas that we felt live on television as we were trying to sort of get inside the ...

Thousands. strong sense of calm permeating charlottesville today. thats been the case all day long with one brief exception. at 2:00 this afternoon when one of the white supremacist who is credited with organizing yesterdays rally, jason kessler called for a press conference and unfortunately for him he publicized it all on social media so no surprise then the counterprotesters showed up. he was virtually shouted down. there were chants of shame, shame and murderer, murderer. one person spit on ...

They did clear the park and clear an area which is how everybody sort of went their separate ways. the counterprotesters ended up in this area, one block off from a pedestrian mall. theres lots of shops here. restaurantses and cafes. when the car mouplowed into the crowd, there was first responders and police that descended on the area, number one, to treat those injured and, number two, to sort of clear out the area and begin the investigation which is at the initial stages at this point. >> nb...