Indictments Issued for Torch-Carrying Marchers in Charlottesville Rally

A grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate during a white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville in 2017. The indictments were issued in February but only recently unsealed. Three people have been indicted so far, each charged with a single count of burning an object with the intent of intimidating a person or group of people. The charge carries a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison. The indictments come almost six years after violence broke out during two days of demonstrations by the largest gathering of white nationalists in a decade.