Trump’s America, Month Eight: Blood on the Pavement in Charlottesville

By Greg Palast

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Don’t look away. Four white neo-Nazis are beating a Black man, crawling on the ground, with their metal poles and a yellow hunk of lumber. The beating continues — there’s blood on the pavement.

The young victim is Deandre Harris, a special education teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia. On GoFundMe, which Harris is using to raise money to pay for his emergency medical care following the beating, he recounts his own experience of being attacked following his participation in the counter-protest against the “Unite the Right” march of white supremacists:

For the story and terrifying photos please see TruthOut