CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – Local activist group Clarksville Indivisible will hold a peaceful candlelight vigil Sunday in response to violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday during a white nationalist rally.
The vigil will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the open-air pavilion at McGregor Park on Riverside Drive. Visitors are encouraged to bring candles.
“Please keep in mind that this will not be a march, will not include protest or chanting. Our goal is peaceful symbolism, and a short religiously neutral prayer to support those who were injured or lost their lives,” the group said in a Facebook post.
Three were killed and dozens were injured amid what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade to protest the city’s decision to remove a Confederate monument. A car rammed into a crowd of protesters, killing a 32-year-old woman, and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods, leaving two troopers onboard dead, according to the Associated Press.