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Southern California white supremacist group has been arrested on charges of inciting a deadly riot in Charlottesville, Va., Last year, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
White supremacists encircling counterproters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Va., On Aug. 11.
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A fourth person is being sought by federal authorities. The arrests have been indicted in Virginia on similar charges.
Rise Above Movement leader Robert Rundo was arrested Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport and was denied in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday, U.S. attorney's office spokesman said Thom Mrozek.
Two others, Robert Boman and Tyler Laube, are arrested Wednesday morning and Aaron Eason remains at large, Mr. Mrozek said. All four are involved with the incentive or participate in riots. Attorney information for the defendant could not immediately be found.
The men allegedly took action to encourage, organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on riots in Charlottesville and the cities of Huntington Beach, Berkeley and San Bernardino, according to a complaint US attorney's office.
"RAM members violently attacked and assaulted counterproters at each of these events," the complaint said.
Prosecutors have described the Rise Above Movement as a militant white supremacist group that espouses anti-Semitic and other racist views and meets with each other in boxing and other fighting techniques.
In August 2017, they made their way to the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville with their hands taped, "ready to do street battle," U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen said at a news conference announcing the charges earlier this month.
Hundreds of white nationalists descended on Charlottesville in part to protest the planning of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Clashes erupted Aug. 11 a crowd of white nationalists marching through the University of Virginia carrying torches and chanting racist slogans encountered a small group of counter-protesters.
The next day, more violence broke out between counter-protesters and expected of the "Unite the Right" rally. Street fighting exploded before the scheduled event.
After authorities forced the Aug. 12 rally to disband, Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when a plague into a crowd of counter-protesters.
The death toll rose to three times when the police crashed, killing two troopers.
-Copyright 2018, Associated Press
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