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A self-described Ku Klux Klan was arrested in leader, because she is driving with his car into a group of Black Lives matters protesters gathered on Sunday in the U.S. state of Virginia.

prosecutors say that Harry Rogers , 36, drove with "reckless" to a Demonstration in Henrico County , and "revved the engine" before driving into the protesters.

Mr Rogers appeared in Henrico court, on The Outskirts of Richmond, on Monday, with a view to the charges of assault and battery.

a Hate Crime investigation is underway.

Harry Rogers face Hate Crime charges was injured after allegedly driving his car into a group of protesters

A protester and treated at The Scene , authorities said, but was not seriously injured.

Anti-racism protests, triggered by the death of George Floyd are in their third week. Mr. Floyd died while held by the Minnesota Police Officer last month. Large rallies and protests were held in several U.S. cities, including Richmond, New York , Chicago and Los Angeles .

Although some of these protests involved violence or looting, and violent clashes between participants and police, an overwhelming majority of peaceful.

"An attack on peaceful demonstrators is abhorrent and despicable, and we will prosecute to the full extent of The Law ," Henrico country Commonwealth's attorney Shannon Taylor said in a statement.

Mr Rogers said the officials, he was President of the Virginia KKK, the highest-ranking member of the white supremacist group, the reports in prison, US media.

"The defendant, by his own admission, and by a cursory glance at Social Media , admittedly, a leader of the Ku Klux Klan and a propagandist for the Confederate ideology," Ms Taylor. "This monstrous crime must not go unpunished. Hatred has No Place here, under my watch. "

Virginia's Governor has ordered a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee to be removed, in the midst of the protests against the racist injustice

Mr Rogers is expected back In Court in August.

Virginia has long been a place for racial tensions in the United States.

Heated debate about the Confederate symbols in The State , and The Statue of the Confederate General Robert Lee unleashed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, about 80 miles from Henrico.

At this rally, A Man drove his car into a crowd of counter-demonstrators, The Killing of A Woman . He was found guilty of the murder.

Mr Rogers is also the image that white nationalist rally was, according to The Guardian .

last week, in the midst of the Black Affairs Lives announced protests over The Killing of Mr. Floyd, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam , a statue of Lee would be removed from The State capital, and immediately placed in storage.

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Source of news: bbc.com