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Article snippet: Sen. MORE (R-Texas) called on the Department of Justice to investigate a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. that turned violent and left three dead and dozens injured. "The Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists are repulsive and evil, and all of us have a moral obligation to speak out against the lies, bigotry, ant-semitism, and hatred that they propagate," Cruz said in a statement. Having watched the horrifying video of the car deliberately crashing into a crowd of protesters, I urge the Department of Justice to immediately investigate and prosecute this grotesque act of domestic terrorism," he continued. White nationalist, white supremacist and alt-right groups were initially scheduled to gather in Charlottesville's Emancipation Park Saturday to protest the city's decision to remove a Confederate statue there. But as clashes broke out ahead of the so-called "Unite the Right" rally Saturday morning, police declared the gathering an unlawful assembly, breaking up the event before it officially began. A vehicle plowed through a crowd of protesters in the afternoon after the police broke up the violent clashes. One of the three died in the car incident. The two other victims were Virginia State Police Department officers who were in a helicopter that crashed. The helicopter crash happened a few miles outside of Charlottesville and it was not immediately clear what caused the crash. Virginia State Police said Saturday that the helicopter crashed in ... Link to the full article to read more