Daniel Borden

On August 12, 2017, DeAndre Harris, a Black man, was assaulted by six White men in an attack in a parking garage next to the police headquarters during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

Images and video of the assault captured by photojournalist Zach Roberts went viral and became a symbol of the enmity underlying the protest.

Four men were arrested on charges of malicious wounding in the assault of Harris.

22-year-old Jacob Scott Goodwin from Ward, Arkansas a member of neo-Nazi Billy Roper's Shield Wall Network (SWN) and the neo-fascist Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), was arrested on October 11, 2017.

His name was specifically mentioned in a United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) August 18 report, in which experts recalled the "horrific events in Charlottesville of 11–12 August 2017 leading to the death of Ms. Heather Heyer, and the injuries inflicted on many other protesters, as well as the terrible beating of Mr. Deandre Harris by white supremacists."

The last arrest took place on January 24, 2018.

All four were convicted and sentenced to 2–8 years in jail.

Harris was found not guilty of assaulting Harold Crews, the chairman of North Carolina's League of the South.

About 500 far-right protestors came to demonstrate their opposition to Charlottesville City Council's decision to remove Confederate monuments and memorials from public spaces.

These included self-identified members of the alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and various right-wing militias.

The marchers chanted racist and antisemitic slogans, carried weapons, Nazi and neo-Nazi symbols, the Valknut, Confederate battle flags, Deus Vult crosses, flags and other symbols of various past and present anti-Muslim and antisemitic groups.

Harris and several friends arrived at Emancipation Park (formerly known as Lee Park) in Charlottesville as counter-protesters at about 11:00 AM.

Harris said that in the brief time he was at the rally, he was "hit with water bottles, pepper-sprayed and had derogatory slurs hurled" at him by protesters.

In less than an hour, law enforcement began to clear both protesters and counterprotesters from the park after McAuliffe had declared the rally an "unlawful assembly".

The white supremacists came into closer contact with the counterprotesters lining the streets as law enforcement pushed them out of the Park.

There were about a thousand counterprotesters.

According to photojournalist Zach D. Roberts, who witnessed the assault, the violence began when Charlottesville police pushed protesters into the streets where there were counterprotesters.

Harris and a few friends were leaving the Park on East Market Street along with other counterprotesters and protesters, when Harris and his friends "exchanged words" with the white supremacists.

This altercation was captured by journalist Chuck Modi, who also witnessed the beating.

Roberts said that the exchange "spilled into a parking lot close to the Charlottesville Police Department building."

During the trial of assailant Jacob Scott Goodwin, arguments made by the defendant's attorney suggested that Harris had initiated the fight by "striking a prominent white nationalist in the head with a flashlight" in response to seeing "a fellow counterprotester being speared in the abdomen with a flagpole".

According to The Washington Post, Harris said he swung a flashlight to try to "knock the flagpole away".

Harris was separated from his friends in the chaos of the crowd and was "cornered" by white supremacists who attacked him with poles, metal pipes, and wood slabs.

Harris was pulled to safety by a woman known only as Karen and was seen by a "street medic with a first aid kit".

Soon after, Roberts informed police about the assault on Harris, all the while voicing concerns that Harris never received any medical attention for about 30 minutes.

Harris credited Karen for keeping him alive in the first half hour after the beating.

Harris suffered a head laceration requiring eight staples, a concussion, a knee injury, a fractured forearm, a chipped tooth, internal injuries, and a spinal injury.

The assault was captured by photographs and videographers, and the footage was disseminated throughout social media and mainstream news.

The Charlottesville Police Department, the Virginia State Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched investigations into the assault.

Shaun King launched an Internet campaign to identify the men involved in the beating, calling on members of the public to examine photos and videos on social media, such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

This helped identify at least one of the attackers.

On August 24, nearly two weeks after the beating, 18-year-old Daniel P. Borden, who was seen wearing a "Commie killer" helmet at the rally, from Mason, Ohio, was charged.

On August 28, 33-year-old Alex Michael Ramos of Marietta, Georgia a member of the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights (FOAK) a military branch of the Proud Boys, was arrested on charges of malicious wounding.

On January 17, 2018, police in Charlottesville, Virginia obtained an arrest warrant for 49-year-old Tyler Watkins Davis of Middleburg, Florida a member of League of the South.

On January 24, 2018, Davis was arrested by deputies from the Clay County Sheriff's Department.

Harris was attacked on social media and received death threats on his phone.

On May 1, 2018, white supremacist Jacob Scott Goodwin was convicted of the malicious wounding of Harris by a Charlottesville jury, which recommended a sentence of 10 years imprisonment and a $20,000 (~$ in ) fine.

On May 3, 2018, Alex Michael Ramos was convicted of malicious wounding by a jury in Charlottesville.

They recommended a six-year sentence with no fine.

On May 21, 2018, Daniel Patrick Borden pleaded guilty to malicious wounding.