Sessions: Virginia car-ramming ‘fits definition’ of domestic terrorism

A suspected white supremacist’s attack on a crowd of protesters using his car as a battering ram fits the definition of domestic terrorism, says US Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

A woman was killed and 19 people were injured when the car plowed into a crowd of people Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a violent rally by neo-Nazis and white supremacists protesting the removal of a Confederate statue.

The vehicle attack “does meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our statute,” Sessions says in an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America program. “We are pursuing it in the Department of Justice in every way that we can make a case.”

“You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation towards the most serious charges that can be brought because this is unequivocally an unacceptable, evil attack,” he tells ABC.

— AFP