23 Arrested and Tear Gas Deployed After a K.K.K. Rally in Virginia<br />Over the course of the day, Ms. Dickler said that at least 23 people had been arrested, and<br />that at least three people had been taken to a hospital — two for “heat-related issues” and one for an “alcohol-related issue.”<br />In an email, Ms. Dickler said she could not “speak to the affiliations” of those who were arrested.<br />As the police returned to Justice Park, though, the crowd followed,<br />and “there were a number of incidents, including the use of pepper spray by the crowd,” Miriam Dickler, a city spokeswoman, said in a statement.<br />City officials said a large group of counterprotesters followed the Klan members back to their vehicles and stopped them from leaving.<br />For about a half-hour, around 50 members of the Klan — some wearing hooded white robes — shouted “white power” at Justice<br />Park as more than 1,000 people protested their presence by hurling insults, water bottles and apple cores.
