Brooklyn DA candidate orders investigation into former KKK leader after Charlottesville violence
Brooklyn District Attorney candidate Patricia Gatling called for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate former KKK leader David Duke after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia left a 32-year-old woman and two police officers dead.
“Justice demands an investigation,” Gatling said in a statement. “Justice for the police and justice for this young woman.”
White nationalists marched into Emancipation Park in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, but the rally quickly escalated. Counter protesters met the nationalist groups and taunting turned into an all-out brawl.