{"id":267,"date":"2017-08-14T22:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2018-03-01T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:05:35","slug":"was-the-charlottesville-car-attack-domestic-terrorism-a-hate-crime-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Was the Charlottesville car attack domestic terrorism, a hate crime or both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"paywall\"><span class=\"pb-byline\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/mark-berman\/\">Mark Berman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"pb-timestamp\">August 14, 2017<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/b064992a-8103-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content inline-video\">\n<div class=\"powa-blurb-wrap powa-blurb inline-video-caption\">\n<p class=\"franklin-light\"><span class=\"powa-tease\">Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Aug. 14 people are &#8220;making too much&#8221; out of President Trump&#8217;s response to the violence that broke out in Charlottesville.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"powa-byline franklin-light\">(Reuters)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-embed-dummy-script\">\u00a0Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that the fatal car attack in Charlottesville\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/sessions-defends-trumps-response-to-charlottesville-violence\/2017\/08\/14\/56e148e0-80e4-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sessions-828am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.a2ab2719418c\">meets the definition of domestic terrorism<\/a>, echoing calls from Republican and Democratic lawmakers and former federal officials to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-house-confronts-backlash-over-trumps-remarks-on-charlottesville\/2017\/08\/13\/de027622-8036-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_whcharlottesville-620pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;tid=a_inl&amp;utm_term=.a9e87cf6909d\">characterize the violence as terror<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Since a car bulldozed\u00a0through counterprotesters Saturday, questions have swirled about whether the attack was a hate crime, terrorism or both, a determination that could impact whether federal charges follow a\u00a0local prosecution in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation into the incident, which Sessions on Monday called \u201can unequivocally unacceptable and evil attack.\u201d Sessions has also vowed that federal authorities will seek \u201cthe most serious charges that can be brought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"interstitial-link\"><i>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/sessions-defends-trumps-response-to-charlottesville-violence\/2017\/08\/14\/56e148e0-80e4-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sessions-828am:homepage\/story&amp;utm_term=.a2ab2719418c\">Sessions defends Trump\u2019s response to Charlottesville violence<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>What those charges will be remains to be seen, given the nature of an attack that experts said might straddle the line between a hate crime and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Police said\u00a0James Alex Fields Jr., 20, drove a car into\u00a0activists in Charlottesville on Saturday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/charlottesville-victim-she-was-there-standing-up-for-what-was-right\/2017\/08\/13\/00d6b034-8035-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_victim-1230pm:homepage\/story&amp;utm_term=.dc1c4b88b068\">killing one woman<\/a>\u00a0and injuring 19 other people. Local\u00a0prosecutors charged him with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/judge-denies-bail-for-man-accused-of-ramming-car-into-charlottesville-protesters\/2017\/08\/14\/2177a028-80fd-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_charlottesville-1046am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.da0fd1315b64\">murder, malicious wounding and hit-and-run<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Fields has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/one-dead-as-car-strikes-crowds-amid-protests-of-white-nationalist-gathering-in-charlottesville-two-police-die-in-helicopter-crash\/2017\/08\/13\/3590b3ce-8021-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html?utm_term=.240758dec0ba\">long sympathized with Nazi views<\/a>, former federal prosecutors and investigators said his background did not necessarily mean he will\u00a0face federal hate-crime charges because that depends on what officials conclude might have motivated him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re\u00a0a racist and you kill someone, that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a hate crime,\u201d said Timothy J. Heaphy, a former U.S. attorney in the Western District of Virginia, which encompasses Charlottesville.\u00a0\u201cThere has to be an explicit connection between the two for it to be a civil rights offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators will coordinate with local prosecutors to try to find any \u201clinkage between the ideology and the criminal act,\u201d said Heaphy, who lives in Charlottesville. Such an investigation will include poring over Fields\u2019s history and social media accounts as well as interviewing people who know him. \u201cWas this an impulsive act, or was it more intentionally directed at a particular group?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"interstitial-link\"><i>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2014\/06\/14\/terror-in-the-american-desert\/?utm_term=.72d829122e15\">Terror in the American desert<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Bill Nettles, the former U.S. attorney in South Carolina, said what could tilt any federal prosecution toward domestic terrorism vs. a hate crime would be whether investigators determine Fields was angry because of the counterprotesters and decided to ram them rather than\u00a0specifically going after a group covered under hate-crimes law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor something to be a hate crime, it has to be more than you hate somebody,\u201d Nettles said. \u201cIt\u2019s got to be you hate somebody that is one of the groups of people, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/matthew-shepard-and-james-byrd-jr-hate-crimes-prevention-act-2009-0\">narrowly defined groups of people<\/a>, contained in the hate crimes statute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terrorism, by comparison, would entail someone becoming enraged by counterprotesters and using their car as a weapon against them, Nettles said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point\u00a0of terrorism is to spread fear,\u201d he said. \u201cThe point of a hate crime is to inflict hate on one of the specific groups that is narrowly defined in the statute.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal horizontal-photo\"><a name=\"a72a53a7b8\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hi-res-lazy courtesy-of-the-lazy-loader\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_960w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/08\/14\/Local\/Images\/045A5035.jpg&amp;w=1484\" data-hi-res-src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_960w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/08\/14\/Local\/Images\/045A5035.jpg&amp;w=1484\" data-low-res-src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_960w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/08\/14\/Local\/Images\/045A5035.jpg&amp;w=480\" data-raw-src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_960w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/08\/14\/Local\/Images\/045A5035.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"pb-caption\">A memorial at the site of the deadly car attack in Charlottesville. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Nettles said he agreed with Sessions that based on information available so far, the attack would appear to be domestic terrorism, adding that the investigation could also determine that it was both a terrorist attack and a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation could also find that the attack was meant to send a specific message, because a key part of terrorism is trying to send a message, said\u00a0David Gomez, a former FBI counterterrorism official and Los Angeles police officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes back to motivation,\u201d Gomez said. \u201cEither way, a hate crime in court, a prosecutor has to prove motivation, and for terrorism, he has to prove motivation. So for the investigator, they say, \u2018How do I prove that?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/217214a8-810e-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content inline-video\">\n<div class=\"powa-blurb-wrap powa-blurb inline-video-caption\">\n<p class=\"franklin-light\"><span class=\"powa-tease\">President Trump on Aug. 14 condemned racist groups such as the KKK, saying racism \u201chas no place in America,\u201d after a woman died in Charlottesville on Aug. 12.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"powa-byline franklin-light\">(Photo: Ricky Carioti\/The Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There have been cases that prosecutors determined were\u00a0motivated by hate as well as terror. In New York earlier this year, where a white man from Baltimore stabbed a black man in what police say\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/03\/23\/white-man-who-targeted-black-people-viewed-fatal-stabbing-as-practice-for-more-attacks-police-say\/?tid=a_inl&amp;utm_term=.acf1d4ecf60a\">he admitted was a racially motivated assault<\/a>, local prosecutors\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/03\/27\/prosecutors-charge-man-with-murder-as-an-act-of-terrorism-in-new-york-stabbing\/?utm_term=.5bb6ea434a24\">charged the attacker with murder as an act of terrorism<\/a>\u00a0and murder as a hate crime. (Virginia also has an anti-terrorism law passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, which was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A19087-2004Nov2.html\">used for the first time<\/a>\u00a0in the trial of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/metro\/specials\/muhammad\/\">John Allen Muhammad<\/a>, the D.C. sniper.)<\/p>\n<p>The violence in Virginia has prompted a torrent of criticism for President Trump, who for two days\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-house-confronts-backlash-over-trumps-remarks-on-charlottesville\/2017\/08\/13\/de027622-8036-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_whcharlottesville-620pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;tid=a_inl&amp;utm_term=.a9e87cf6909d\">declined to denounce the white supremacists<\/a>\u00a0gathered in Charlottesville by name. On Monday, after mounting condemnation, Trump specifically\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/08\/14\/trump-denounces-kkk-neo-nazis-as-justice-department-launches-civil-rights-probe-into-charlottesville-death\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_pp-trump-125pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.5a2b744ca4c8\">denounced neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>. He also spoke of Heather Heyer, 32, who was killed when the car drove through the crowd, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/two-state-police-troopers-killed-in-charlottesville-helicopter-crash-remembered-as-heroes\/2017\/08\/12\/099a41d0-7fd2-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.a8c06d6c0c72\">two Virginia state troopers killed in a helicopter crash<\/a>\u00a0while patrolling the Charlottesville area Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has had counterterrorism prosecutors and FBI counterterrorism agents involved in the case since Saturday,\u00a0according to a spokeswoman. The FBI, Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Western District of Virginia opened the civil rights probe into \u201cthe deadly vehicular incident\u201d in Charlottesville on Saturday, federal officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Labeling an attack as domestic terrorism can give the federal government increased authority to investigate what happened, as Susan Hennessey, a former attorney at the National Security Agency,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/good-reasons-not-charge-all-terrorists-terrorism\">wrote for Lawrfare<\/a>\u00a0in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Whether any potential federal charges following the Charlottesville attack could mention domestic terrorism is another question.\u00a0While domestic terrorism is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/USCODE-2009-title18\/pdf\/USCODE-2009-title18-partI-chap113B-sec2331.pdf\">defined federally<\/a>\u00a0as something aimed at intimidating a civilian population or trying to influence government policy, Sarah Isgur Flores, the\u00a0Justice Department spokeswoman, noted Monday that there is no specific federal charge for domestic terror.<\/p>\n<p class=\"interstitial-link\"><i>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/one-dead-as-car-strikes-crowds-amid-protests-of-white-nationalist-gathering-in-charlottesville-two-police-die-in-helicopter-crash\/2017\/08\/13\/3590b3ce-8021-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_vaprotests-145pm:homepage\/story&amp;utm_term=.5a214aa2e068\">Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt matters a lot for public confidence in government and our ability to respond to attacks like this,\u201d Heaphy said. \u201cIf this is domestic terrorism,\u00a0if this is hate based, it has to be called out as such.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt may not make a difference for the number of days this person may spend incarcerated, but it makes a huge difference for \u2026\u00a0our ability to hold people accountable for what they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some domestic terrorism probes have led to other types of charges that carry\u00a0criminal penalties. Last year in Kansas, after the FBI conducted a domestic terrorism investigation of a militia group, federal authorities\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2016\/10\/14\/three-kansas-men-calling-themselves-crusaders-charged-in-terror-plot-targeting-muslim-immigants\/?utm_term=.f035df153886\">charged three men<\/a>\u00a0they said were plotting attacks on Muslim immigrants\u00a0with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. That charge came because the men plotted to bomb an apartment complex that housed a mosque and Somali people, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"interstitial-link\"><i>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/charlottesville-victim-she-was-there-standing-up-for-what-was-right\/2017\/08\/13\/00d6b034-8035-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html?utm_term=.320e7f02127d\">Charlottesville victim: \u2018She was there standing up for what was right\u2019<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>After some cases, including the Charleston, S.C., church massacre in 2015, questions have swirled regarding what federal authorities will and will not describe as terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe line between a hate crime and terrorism would fall into this space of, is there a political motive?\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intelwire\">J.M. Berger<\/a>, a fellow with the International Center for Counter-Terrorism at The Hague who studies extremism and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Berger said it has long been an issue that there has not been an objective standard for examining and categorizing extremist threats and behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe major problem we have in this realm is that there\u2019s a de facto assumption that when a Muslim does it, it\u2019s terrorism,\u201d Berger said Monday, describing the way extremist attacks and plots are characterized. \u201cAnd when a white guy does it, it\u2019s mental\u00a0illness or something else. Unsurprisingly, reality is more complicated than the categories we create for these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"interstitial-link\"><i>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/two-state-police-troopers-killed-in-charlottesville-helicopter-crash-remembered-as-heroes\/2017\/08\/12\/099a41d0-7fd2-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?tid=sm_tw&amp;utm_term=.069cea899c20\">Two state police troopers killed in Charlottesville helicopter crash while covering protest<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Berger said the Charlottesville violence could be a tipping point in the discussion about what is labeled terrorism, saying that there \u201cis a critical mass of both officials and people in the public referring to this attack as terrorism.\u201d He noted that this includes politicians calling the attack terrorism who might not have done that before.<\/p>\n<p>A part of how federal authorities proceed in Charlottesville might focus on what the Justice Department wants to say to the public about what happened, said Nettles, the former federal prosecutor who was involved in the Dylann Roof prosecution in Charleston before resigning last year. He said charging decisions by prosecutors in cases like this are meant\u00a0to punish the person who committed the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in cases like this, you do want to send a message to the community,\u201d Nettles said.<\/p>\n<p>Roof was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2016\/12\/15\/jurors-begin-deliberating-in-charleston-church-shooting-trial\/?utm_term=.b34f46da123a\">convicted of hate crimes<\/a>\u00a0for killing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/national\/charleston-church-shooting-victims\/\">nine black parishioners<\/a>\u00a0in a Charleston church. He was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/01\/11\/families-of-dylann-roofs-victims-offer-him-forgiveness\/?utm_term=.75957c5ddc72\">sentenced to death<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>[This story has been updated to add the line about Virginia having its own anti-terrorism law.]<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"f0Bc1MgRH0hvKq\" class=\"moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-true full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-page-newsletter-inLine injected-by-front-end\" data-chain-name=\"no-name\" data-feature-name=\"no-name\" data-feature-id=\"page\/newsletter-inLine\" data-pb-fingerprint=\"0fDFtBwNlqj\">\n<div class=\" border-bottom- nl-top-hairline\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-inline-unit codedNewsletter\">\n<div class=\"signup-module row inline-newsletter\">\n<div class=\"title-container col-xs-8\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Mark Berman\u00a0August 14, 2017 Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Aug. 14 people are &#8220;making too much&#8221; out of President Trump&#8217;s response to the violence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopplaybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-03-01_10-04-32.jpg?fit=670%2C419&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8VBh7-4j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":699,"url":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=699","url_meta":{"origin":267,"position":0},"title":"A look at the data on domestic terrorism and who\u2019s behind it","author":"Donnie","date":"August 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Miriam Valverde on Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 These numbers do not factor 2017-2018 deaths in America, most notably the Las Vegas shootings, where 59 people were killed. 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