Her name was Heather Heyer.
She died when a car with an Ohio license plate rammed into a crowd near Charlottesville’s downtown mall after the rally at the city park was dispersed. Heyer was one of the counter-protesters marching in jubilation near the mall after the white nationalists dispersed from the scene.
Heather Heyer went to Charlottesville to stand against torch-wielding, gun-toting, Nazi flag-flying white supremacists who were there to protest the city’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.
Now we know whose statue should replace the traitor and racist Robert E. Lee:
Heather Heyer, an American patriot and hero who stood against hate, intolerance, and violence, and made the ultimate sacrifice so our country could be free and safe for all.
