In Charlottesville,
there have been gatherings
for peace and healing after
what was a very bloody weekend
of violence, sparked by racism.
JENNA BROWDER: From
Charlottesville
to our nation's capital, then
cities across the country--
a rally for unity and
prayers for the victims,
including two veteran troopers,
Jay Cullen and Berke Bates,
killed in a helicopter crash,
responding to the violence.
And Heather Heyer, a
32-year-old paralegal,
whose mother says
she died standing up
for what she believed in.
SUSAN BRO: Heather's
life was not about hate.
And this young man who ran
my daughter down mistakenly
believed that hate
would change the world.
JENNA BROWDER: This
is video of that man--
20-year-old James Fields Jr.--
seen with a white
supremacist group,
then hours later
carrying out this attack
and arrested for murder.
His mother saying she
knew her son was driving
from his home in Ohio
to Virginia for a rally,
but not what it was about.
I didn't know it was
white supremacists.
I thought it had something
to do with Trump.
Trump's not a supremacist.
JENNA BROWDER: And
a former teacher
of Fields, now saying he
made pro-Nazi comments
in high school.
Well, he felt that
whites were superior.
He felt that the views
that Adolf Hitler espoused
were correct, in some way.
I got hit in my head.
I have eight staples in my head.
JENNA BROWDER:
Deandre Harris says
a group of white nationalists,
armed with shields and helmets,
beat him with poles.
Just called me the n-word.
Telling me to die.
They were, like, definitely
trying to kill me yesterday.
JENNA BROWDER: Attorney
General Jeff Sessions
has opened a federal civil
rights investigation.
And on Sunday, President Trump's
national security advisor
was direct in calling
the violence terrorism.
Do you consider
that car attack
in Charlottesville yesterday
an act of domestic terrorism?
I certainly think
any time that you
commit an attack against
people to incite fear,
it is terrorism.
JENNA BROWDER: The president
spoke out against the violence
Saturday.
We condemn, in the
strongest possible terms,
this egregious display of
hatred, bigotry, and violence--
on many sides.
On many sides.
JENNA BROWDER: But both
Republicans and Democrats
criticized him for not
specifically condemning
white supremacists
and related groups.
The White House later
said, of course,
that includes white
supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi,
and all extremist groups.
Many Christian leaders also
blasted the white nationalists
and their ideas.
Beth Moore tweeting, "We cannot
renounce what we will not name.
It's called White Supremacy."
And Franklin Graham--
"Violence and hatred
aren't the answer."
Other Christian leaders
spoke out as well,
while encouraging a message
of God's love for all people.
In Washington, Jenna
Browder, CBN News.
