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Article snippet: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Heather D. Heyer, the woman run down during violent clashes here, was remembered on Wednesday for a quality that friends and relatives described as her most frustrating, and most admired — a passion for fighting injustice that was so relentless, it often spilled into her work and personal life. Hundreds of mourners packed a theater in downtown Charlottesville for her memorial service, wearing a sea of purple, her favorite color. Ms. Heyer, 32, had been among a crowd of counterprotesters who gathered on Saturday in opposition to a rally against the removal of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. That rally drew white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members. She was killed when a man drove a Dodge Challenger into the crowd of counterprotesters. The police arrested a suspect who had a history of espousing Nazi ideology. The suspect, identified as James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Maumee, Ohio, was charged in her death and the wounding of about 20 other protesters. At the memorial, a photo of Ms. Heyer with long curled hair, bright eyes and an understated smile splashed across a screen in front of the crowd. A raft of friends and family members came to the stage and shared memories of her, speaking from a lectern that was sandwiched between two sprays of pink and purple roses. They described her convictions as so intense that they prompted tearful outbursts at work, collapsed relationships and argumentative dinners at home, f... Link to the full article to read more