Kessler was arrested last night at the "Take Back Lee Park" rally for allegedly assaulting a woman.
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Charlottesville, being an independent city, is separate from the surrounding Albemarle County. Hence, many population analyses are low.
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The metro area, which includes the City and Albemarle, Nelson, Fluvanna, and Greene counties, is about 206,000. The city is about 49,000.
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Of these municipal units, Charlottesville was strongly blue, Albemarle County mostly blue, and the remainder red in the 2016 election.
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Charlottesville made national news several times in the past decade for violence against women, mainly white college students.
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Less publicized are the black trans women who have disappeared over the years.
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Charlottesville regularly gets voted as a "Top Place in America to Live" by lifestyle magazines. It's a beautiful town for sure.
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But it has a very problematic history with race. And we'd like to believe it's in the past but it really very much is not.
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This includes police brutality:http://jezebel.com/reports-black-uva-student-beaten-by-police-for-having-1692199936 …
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Martese Johnson was thrown to the ground and arrested by Virginia state ABC agents not local police.
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That doesn't really matter, like at all.
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