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TH
CONGRESS 1
ST
S
ESSION
S. J. RES.
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Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Vir-ginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while moni-toring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured by the violence, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President’s Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
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Mr. W
ARNER
(for himself, Mr. K
AINE
, Mr. G
ARDNER
, Mr. I
SAKSON
, Ms. M
URKOWSKI
, and Mr. B
LUMENTHAL
) introduced the following joint reso-lution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured by the violence, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists,
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White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President’s Cabinet to use all available resources to ad-dress the threats posed by those groups. Whereas, on the night of Friday, August 11, 2017, a day be-fore a White nationalist demonstration was scheduled to occur in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of torch-bear-ing White nationalists, White supremacists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis chanted racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-im-migrant slogans and violently engaged with counter-dem-onstrators on and around the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; Whereas, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, ahead of the sched- uled start time of the planned march, protestors and counter-demonstrators gathered at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville; Whereas the extremist demonstration turned violent, culmi-nating in the death of peaceful counter-demonstrator Heather Heyer and injuries to 19 other individuals after a neo-Nazi sympathizer allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowd, an act that resulted in a charge of second degree murder, 3 counts of malicious wounding, and 1 count of hit and run; Whereas 2 Virginia State Police officers, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, died in a helicopter crash as they patrolled the events occurring below them; Whereas the Charlottesville community is engaged in a heal-ing process following this horrific and violent display of bigotry; and
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Whereas White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups reportedly are organizing similar events in other cities in the United States and communities everywhere are concerned about the growing and open display of hate and violence being perpetrated by those groups: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
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of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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That Congress—
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(1) condemns the racist violence and domestic
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terrorist attack that took place between August 11
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and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia;
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(2) recognizes—
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(A) Heather Heyer, who was killed, and 19
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other individuals who were injured in the re-
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ported domestic terrorist attack; and
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(B) several other individuals who were in-
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jured in separate attacks while standing up to
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hate and intolerance;
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(3) recognizes the public service and heroism of
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Virginia State Police officers Lieutenant H. Jay
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Cullen and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, who
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lost their lives while responding to the events from
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the air;
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(4) offers—
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