Social media is helping police make arrests related to the violence in Charlottesvill
 

Social media is helping police make arrests related to the violence in Charlottesville
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Social media is helping track down the white supremacists responsible for brutally assaulting a counterprotester in Charlottesville.

Per a New York Times report, Daniel P. Borden, one of the multiple assailants who attacked 20-year-old Deandre Harris during the infamous "Unite the Right" rally on August 12 has been arrested. Police have also issued a wanted poster for Alex Michael Ramos, another man sought in connection to the crime. Both have face charges of malicious wounding.*

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As Harris' attorney S. Lee Merritt told the New York Times, the men responsible for his client's assault — video of which was disseminated across social media on and after August 12 — have been identified largely thanks to journalist and activist Shaun King of the New York Daily News.* Read more...

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