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First-amendment right to publicly demonstrate, expressing their first amendment right to disagree with the lawful decision of the charlottesville city council to a point where theyre sort of seeking this us versus them confrontation, its unfortunate and that is something that they dont have the right to do. >> i want to point out, we did see protesters with what appeared to be peber spray, spraying it in the face of some of the counterprotesters. i want to ask our producers, we have kaylee hartu...

Welcome back, everyone. as we approach the bottom of the hour, that is video as to what was happening earlier this morning in charlottesville, virginia, the result of a scheduled rally that was met with counterprotesters, all about the removal of the statue of confederate general robert e. lee from emancipation park there in charlottesville, virginia. things got very unruly, very out of hand and a certain level of violence was on display. you can see part of it for yourself. joining us on the ph...

In our society. no matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are all americans first. >> joining me now is is nbcs maya rodriguez who was on the scene and has been there during the day. this was obviously the most dramat dramatic. now, we know deadly, but explain what you heard from witnesses. >> right, so, witnesses out here say there were a large number of counterprotesters. people protesting against the unite the right rally taking place at a park a few blocks away. they someho...

And the people and companies behind them. so why should that matter to you? because, today, we are still helping progress makers turn their ideas into reality. and the next great idea could be yours. welcome back, everybody. we want to continue to keep you up to speed, the breaking nows out of charlottesville, virginia and we can confirm there is one death now. 19 injured and have been takening to the hospital after the tragic video that showed a car employeeing into a crowd of counterproteste...

Alt-right, white nationalists, many would call white supremacists have been out. youre looking at pictures of those torches i just mentioned right now, at the university of virginia right now, protesting the removal of the statue of the confederate general in an area that has an ignoble history of slavery. those protests continued and were met with counterprotests from both the clergy, black lives matter activists, anti-fascist organizations and they devolved into violence, and then just late th...

Safety of those protesters and counterprotesters that will be encountered as we move into the afternoon, late afternoon, and evening hours in virginia on the east coast. >> thats a good question, jacob, but youre exactly right. it flows more into the intelligence gathering for the state police and charlottesville pd and all the gathered law enforcement. theyve got to be picking up talk on the street and through their own surveillance. their plain clothes officers, observing where these folks are...

Bit. but those crowds are beginning to reconverge in that exact same intersection once again. its a very tense situation out here. talking all morning about what happened last night. starting to see some of those in motion kind of come to the fore here and we do again have lots of state police around monitoring the situation right now but tensions very high at this rally. >> maya, we see people with the red and black flags. any idea what the insignia theyre supporting there with the flags? >> so...

In this act of violence that took place after white nationalists and counter-protest groups had a day-long encounter of fighting back and forth in the streets of charlottesville but the act of terror with a car speeding down a road with pedestrians on foot, counter-protesters, one person was killed, 19 others injured. but police say theyve arrested one of the drivers involved in the accident. there was a chain reaction of vehicles involved. they were not specific and we are working on that to fi...

Out. so, it was almost like the crowd was hit twice out here. you can see that theyve done a pretty good job of clearing the scene here. police moving all of the counterprotesters that have been out here earlier. they have now put up barricades. this is an active investigation as police try to piece together exactly what happened out here. >> nbc news correspondent maya rodriguez, i appreciate it. do we still have mariana sotomayor with us on the street where the car crash happened? unfortunatel...

Hold on. >> not happened with the plowing of the car. >> hold on. hold on. regarding that car event we are still waiting to find out exactly who may be under arrest in the arrest. exactly who the victims were but we do know that the crowd of people who were plowed into were the counterprotesters. the people who had come to speak out against the white supremacists who were holding -- >> both sides today. the person driving the car should be condemned, the other people who were involved in the vio...