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Virginia law on burning crosses and tiki torches

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The alt-right demonstrators who keep coming to Charlottesville like to march around carrying tiki torches. Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy has called on the Commonwealth's Attorney to prosecute them under Virginia's cross-burning statute. But the United States Supreme Court says that fire and hate, without a direct threat, is not prosecutable under this statute.

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