UNR Student Seen In Now Notorious Charlottesville Picture Defends White Nationalism
RENO (AP) - A Nevada college student who was photographed marching in Virginia before a deadly white supremacist rally says he's not an "angry racist."
KTVN-TV interviewed 20-year-old Peter Cvjetanovic after he was identified online in a photo showing white nationalists marching through the University of Virginia campus carrying torches Friday.
On Saturday, a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters as tensions turned violent at a related rally.
Cvjetanovic says he didn't expect the photo to spread but that he's a white nationalist who cares for all people and wants to "preserve what we have."
Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, after a recent photo of the two reportedly surfaced, condemned the events and said he didn't know Cvjetanovic.
This community will not be divided by hateful language and violence. To read @unevadareno official statement https://t.co/xHsnuCoge7
— Univ. of Nevada Reno (@unevadareno) August 13, 2017
The University of Nevada, Reno, also denounced the movement as corrosive to society.
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