Horrific video of white supremacists beating man goes viral
DeAndre Harris, the man who was viciously beaten by a group of white supremacists in Charlottesville on Saturday, says police failed to come to his aid.
Video of the bashing, which happened during violent protests in Virginia on the weekend, has gone viral, but as yet no arrests have been made.
Harris, 21, was kicked and beaten in a parking garage right next door to the city police station.
Zach Roberts, a documentary photographer who caught the bashing on film, said he told police officers what had happened and that he had photographs of the attack but they did not respond immediately.
Hundreds of nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members took to the streets of Charlotesville on Saturday, where they were confronted by anti-racism protestors.
One man linked to white nationalist groups, 20-year-old Ohio man James Alex Fields Junior, has been charged with murder after a fatal hit-and-run crash killed 32-year-old woman Heather Heyer and injured 19 others.
Police have set up a hotline to report crimes that occurred over the weekend.
Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas told a press conference on Monday that they had received 250 calls on the day of the protests, but many perpetrators "would strike and then disappear into the crowd" - making it difficult to arrest anyone.
DeAndre Harris yelled at a group of white supremacists, telling them to "go home", when he was chased and attacked.
He was hit with poles and wood from a broken parking gate barrier, suffering a broken wrist and chipped tooth.
He required eight staples in his scalp to close a head wound.
Roberts estimates the attack lasted around 30 seconds before Harris's friends came to his aid.
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He claims one man drew a handgun and aimed it at Harris's friends, but put it away when he realised he was being photographed.
Greg Palast, the director of the documentary that Roberts was filming, says he offered to share photographs and video of the incident to police, but no-one had contacted him.
Roberts says the footage is proof that James Alex Fields Junior's ram-raid into a crowd of counter-protestors was not, as some have claimed, an "isolated incident" of violence by white supremacists against anti-racism protestors.
