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On 12 August 2017, just after the occurrence of violent and tragic events at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, left multiple people dead, an image was widely circulated via social media seemingly showing a black police officer calmly standing guard to protect a group of racist protesters carrying Confederate flags, wearing Ku Klux Klan garb, and issuing Nazi salutes: Although this photograph was genuine, it was not — as was widely assumed (or stated) in social media posts — a picture snapped at the 12 August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. The image had been posted online well over a month earlier, as shown in this 9 July 2017 tweet from Tucson, Arizona, police chief Chris Magnus: It was also posted on Facebook at that time by Kimberly Payne Hawk, who described the pictured policeman as Charlottesville Police Officer Nash: A few days later, Frank Somerville of Oakland television station KTVU wrote of the latter posting that: The image originated with a Ku Klux Klan rally held in downtown Charlottesville on 8 July 2017: The photograph was snapped by during that protest by Jill Mumie, one of several shots she captured on her iPhone: The officer pictured in the image was a Charlottesville High School school resource officer named Darius Nash, who said, I don't feel like I'm a hero for it. I swore to protect my city and that's what I was there to do. I don't think it makes me a hero, just doing what I believe in.
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