Preparations

Abstract

This chapter details the preparations for the August 12 Unite the Right rally, in which Heather Heyer was one of the planned participants. It describes Heyer's personality that was marked by two strong values: a sweet, kindhearted disposition, and an intolerance for intolerance. It also talks about James Alex Fields Jr., whose domestic life with his mother, in a Florence, Kentucky, apartment, was marked by dysfunction and violence. The chapter investigates the connection between Fields' propensity for impulsive violence and obsession with the Nazis to Heyer's fate. It recounts how Fields's car smashed into the crowd of protesters during the August 12 rally, injuring nineteen people and killing Heyer.