Protesting a monument?? California man pleads guilty to riot conspiracy in 'Unite the Right' rally
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WHSV/AP) One of four California men accused of violently attacking counterprotesters at the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to riot.
An image released by the FBI showing members of the Rise Above Movement attending the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017, including Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis, Thomas Gillen and Cole White.
Thomas Walter Gillen, 25, a member of the Rise Above Movement, a white supremacist group, entered the guilty plea on Monday in U.S. District Court, where he
admitted traveling to rallies in California and Virginia with the purpose of committing acts of violence.
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Miselis and Daley, who prosecutors say both traveled to Europe after the Charlottesville rally to meet with neo-Nazi and fascist groups and attended a festival in Germany celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday, are being held without bond.