Mother of Unite the Right White nationalist rally counter protester murder victim Heather Heyer sues her daughter's convicted killer, Susan Bro of Charlottesville, Virginia vowing to preclude the Ohio man from profiting via rights to his story or a memoir after murdering her daughter with his car at the rally in Charlottesville...Alex Fields Jr. is serving life plus 419 years in prison....Bro says she does not want his "blood money"....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog
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| Susan Bro, the mother of activist Heather Heyer (inset), who was killed while protesting against a White nationalist rally in 2017 in her hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. Bro has sued Alex Fields Jr., the convicted murderer who took her daughter's life, in an effort to keep him from profiting from her death |
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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-Charlottesville, Virginia — Susan Bro, the mother of a Heather Heyer, who was killed when an Ohio man man rammed his car through a crowd protesting a White nationalist rally in her hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, has sued her daughter's murderer for wrongful death for $12 million, Bro saying the lawsuit is necessary to keep the convicted murderer from profiting from her daughter's death.
Bro's attorney filed the lawsuit Aug. 30 against James Alex Fields Jr., who is currently serving a life sentence plus 419 years on various state and federal convictions, including aggravated murder, felonious assault, and hate crimes
Bro said she doesn't want Fields' "blood money."
Her daughter, she said, was not a seasoned activist but joined others opposing the White nationalist rally, a few of them Black and among those injured that tragic day of Aug. 12, 2017 when Heather lost her life for exercising her free speech right under the First Amendment to freely protest on issues of public concern in a non-violent fashion.
Her daughter, she said, was not a seasoned activist but joined others opposing the White nationalist rally, a few of them Black and among those injured that tragic day of Aug. 12, 2017 when Heather lost her life for exercising her free speech right under the First Amendment to freely protest on issues of public concern in a non-violent fashion.
He drove from Ohio to Virginia to participate in the now infamous protest where organizers shouted racial epithets and said they want to make America White again.
Bro said the lawsuit seeks to prevent him from profiting via rights to his story or a memoir.
She has said publicly that while she is appreciative and pleased that her daughter's murder has generated such widespread media attention, she also knows full well that were Heather not White the interest would likely be minimal.
Heyer was 32-years- old when she was murdered fighting against racism, bigotry and White supremacy.
Dozens more were injured as innocent counter protesters when Fields plowed into the crowd with his car at the now infamous White nationalist rally in Charlottesville two years ago, now the subject of Hollywood movies, including Spike Lee's Oscar winning movie BlacKkKlansman, for which he snatched the Oscar for co-writing the film.
Anti-violence educational forums in schools and colleges are popping up nationwide relative to increasing gun and other heinous violence and murder against innocent people, Bro, a former school teacher and new-to-the forum activist in her own right who has since established the Heather Heyer Foundation, often invited as a panelist or guest speaker.
Heyer's murder in particular and hate crimes in general have caught the attention of congressional lawmakers, a bill now pending in committee in Congress that would require that police report suspected hate crimes against activists, Muslims, immigrants, members of the LGBTQ community and anybody else to the FBI, proposed legislation that drew Bro's testimony earlier this year at a congressional committee meeting on the bill.
The Unite the Right rally[4] , where Heyer was killed, was a white supremacist[5][6][7][8] rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017.[9][10] Protesters were members of the far-right and included self-identified members of the alt-right,[11] neo-Confederates,[12] neo-fascists,[13] white nationalists,[14] neo-Nazis,[15] Klansmen,[16] Blue Lives Matter,[17] and various right-wing militias.[18] The marchers chanted racist and antisemitic slogans, carried semi-automatic rifles, Nazi and neo-Nazi symbols (such as the swastika, Odal rune, Black Sun, and Iron Cross), the Valknut, Confederate battle flags, Deus Vult crosses, flags and other symbols of various past and present anti-Muslim and antisemitic groups (References for the above paragraph are via Wikipedia)
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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