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ON VIOLENCE, FEAR, LIES, AND RACE

Violence

Last winter, an incident shook the quiet college-town of Charlottesville, Virginia, and brought dormant tensions over race relations bubbling to the forefront of local media. Having just returned home for winter break, I sat at my kitchen table and opened a local newspaper to the headline Knockout: Victims of brutal Downtown Mall assault want arrests, and answers from police.

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