Civil Jury Finds ‘Unite the Right’ Rally Organizers Responsible for 2017 Charlottesville Violence

White nationalist Richard Spencer and his supporters lash with Virginia State Police in Emancipation Park after the "Unite the Right" rally was declared an unlawful gathering in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

After a civil trial, a federal jury in Virginia ordered organizers of the ill-fated “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville to pay 9 plaintiffs more than $20 million in compensatory and punitive damages for physical and emotional injuries.

The case in Sines v. Kessler, civil action 3:17-cv-72, was heard in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia.