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Thursday 17 augusT 2017
Charlottesville victim’s mother urges ‘righteous action’

of race relations in the U.S. tionalists — including neo-
The uproar has acceler- Nazis, skinheads and Ku
ated efforts in many cities Klux Klan members — had
to remove symbols of the descended on Charlottes-
Confederacy. ville after the city decided
Heyer was eulogized as to remove a monument to
a woman with a power- Confederate Gen. Robert
ful sense of fairness. The E. Lee.
mourners, many of them The driver of the car, James
wearing purple, her favor- Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old
ite color, applauded as Ohio man described as an
her mother urged them to admirer of Adolf Hitler and
channel their anger not Nazi Germany, was arrest-
into violence but into “righ- ed and charged with mur-
teous action.” der and other offenses.
State troopers were sta- In other developments:
tioned on the surrounding — Trump tweeted for the
streets, but the white na- first time about Heyer, call-
tionalists who had vowed ing her “beautiful and in-
to show up were nowhere credible” and a “truly spe-
to be seen among the cial young woman.” The
residents, clergy and tour- White House did not re-
Jason Charter, left, of Washington, stands at a memorial, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Charlot- ists outside the Paramount spond to questions about
tesville, Va., at the site where Heather Heyer was killed during a white nationalist rally. Charter was Theater, just blocks from whether the president had
at the scene when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting the rally. where Heyer died. contacted Heyer’s family.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Heyer, a white legal assis- — Baltimore dismantled
By BRIAN WITTE ter’s death worthwhile” by Heather Heyer. tant from Charlottesville, four Confederacy-related
SARAH RANKIN confronting injustice the Heyer’s death Saturday was killed and 19 oth- monuments under cover of
Associated Press way she did. — and President Donald ers were injured Saturday darkness, including statues
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) “They tried to kill my child Trump’s insistence that when a car plowed into of Lee and Gen. Thomas
— The mother of the young to shut her up. Well, guess “both sides” bear respon- counterprotesters who had “Stonewall” Jackson, while
woman mowed down what? You just magnified sibility for the violence taken to the streets to de- the mayor of Birmingham,
while protesting a white her,” said Susan Bro, receiv- — continued to reverber- cry what was believed to Alabama, had the city’s
nationalist rally in Charlot- ing a standing ovation from ate across the country, be the country’s biggest 52-foot (15-meter) Con-
tesville urged mourners at a the hundreds who packed triggering fury among gathering of white nation- federate memorial obelisk
memorial service Wednes- a downtown theater to many Americans and soul- alists in at least a decade. covered over with wooden
day to “make my daugh- remember 32-year-old searching about the state The hundreds of white na- panels.q

5 missing after Army helicopter goes down, items found

By AUDREY McAVOY and endangered Hawai-
Associated Press ian monk seals.
HONOLULU (AP) — A multi- A Coast Guard plane, two
agency team scoured helicopters and several
the ocean off Hawaii on boats were being used in
Wednesday for five people the search across an area
aboard an Army helicop- with light winds and 2-foot
ter that went down during (0.6-meter) seas.
a nighttime training exer- Two Black Hawk crews
cise. were conducting train-
Officials at Wheeler Army ing between Kaena Point
Airfield near Honolulu re- and Oahu’s Dillingham
ported losing communica- Airfield northwest of Hono-
tions around 10 p.m. Tues- lulu when communications
day with the crew of a UH- were lost, officials said.
60 Black Hawk, Clouds and a few show-
the Coast Guard said in a ers were in the area at the
statement. time.
Honolulu Fire Department Night training offshore is
search and rescue crews routine, said Lt. Col. Curtis
found and collected piec- Kellogg, public affairs offi-
es of helicopter fuselage cer for the Army’s 25th In-
and a helmet in a debris fantry Division.
field about 2 miles (3 kilo- Honolulu Fire Department search and rescue members sit on a docked boat at a boat harbor, The search began immedi-
Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Haleiwa, Hawaii. An Army helicopter with five on board crashed
meters) off Kaena Point on several miles off Oahu’s North Shore late Tuesday. Rescue crews are searching the waters early ately after one aircrew lost
Oahu. Wednesday. visual and video contact
Photos showed Army sol- (AP Photo/Marco Garcia) with the other helicopter,
diers unloading suspected Kellogg said.
debris from the firefighters’ Officials closed the state Kaena is a remote spot to form a small peninsula. The two helicopters are el-
boat at the harbor in the park at Kaena Point while where Oahu’s northern The park’s sandy coastline ements of the 25th Com-
nearby town of Haleiwa. the search was underway. and western coasts meet is home to a seabird colony bat Aviation Brigade.q