The mother of James Fields Jr., the 20-year-old Ohio man accused of driving into a crowd and killing one person during a white nationalist rally, says she told him to protest peacefully before he went to Virginia.
“I told him to be careful,” Samantha Bloom, who is a paraplegic, told the Toledo Blade. “[And] if they’re going to rally to make sure he’s doing it peacefully.”
Fields told her about the rally last week, she told the paper.
“I try to stay out of his political views,” she said. “I don’t get too involved.”
In this handout provided by Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio poses for a mugshot after he allegedly drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters killing one and injuring dozens more on Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via Getty Images
