Joint resolution condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured by the violence, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups
PL 115-58 (S.J.Res.49), enacted 09/14/2017

131 STAT. 1149 
PUBLIC LAW 115–58—SEPT. 14, 2017 
Public Law 115–58 
115th Congress 
Joint Resolution 
Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events 
between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing 
the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering 
deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were 
killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured 
by the violence, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting 
White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other 
hate groups, and urging the President and the President’s Cabinet to use all 
available resources to address the threats posed by those groups. 
Whereas, on the night of Friday, August 11, 2017, a day before 
a White nationalist demonstration was scheduled to occur in 
Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of torch-bearing White 
nationalists, White supremacists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis 
chanted racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slogans and vio-
lently engaged with counter-demonstrators on and around the 
grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; 
Whereas, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, ahead of the scheduled 
start time of the planned march, protestors and counter-dem-
onstrators gathered at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville; 
Whereas the extremist demonstration turned violent, culminating 
in the death of peaceful counter-demonstrator Heather Heyer 
and injuries to 19 other individuals after a neo-Nazi sympathizer 
allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowd, an act that resulted in 
a charge of second degree murder, 3 counts of malicious wounding, 
and 1 count of hit and run; 
Whereas 2 Virginia State Police officers, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen 
and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, died in a helicopter crash 
as they patrolled the events occurring below them; 
Whereas the Charlottesville community is engaged in a healing 
process following this horrific and violent display of bigotry; and 
Whereas White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, 
neo-Nazis, and other hate groups reportedly are organizing 
similar events in other cities in the United States and commu-
nities everywhere are concerned about the growing and open 
display of hate and violence being perpetrated by those groups: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress— 
(1) condemns the racist violence and domestic terrorist 
attack that took place between August 11 and August 12, 
2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia; 
(2) recognizes— 
H. Jay Cullen. 
Berke M.M. 
Bates. 
Heather Heyer. 
Sept. 14, 2017 
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(A) Heather Heyer, who was killed, and 19 other 
individuals who were injured in the reported domestic ter-
rorist attack; and 
(B) several other individuals who were injured in sepa-
rate attacks while standing up to hate and intolerance; 
(3) recognizes the public service and heroism of Virginia 
State Police officers Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen and Trooper 
Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, who lost their lives while responding 
to the events from the air; 
(4) offers— 
(A) condolences to the families and friends of Heather 
Heyer, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, and Trooper Pilot Berke 
M.M. Bates; and 
(B) sympathy and support to those individuals who 
are recovering from injuries sustained during the attacks; 
(5) expresses support for the Charlottesville community 
as the community heals following this demonstration of violent 
bigotry; 
(6) rejects White nationalism, White supremacy, and neo- 
Nazism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradic-
tory to the values that define the people of the United States; 
and 
(7) urges— 
(A) the President and his administration to— 
(i) speak out against hate groups that espouse 
racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and 
White supremacy; and 
(ii) use all resources available to the President 
and the President’s Cabinet to address the growing 
prevalence of those hate groups in the United States; 
and 
(B) the Attorney General to work with— 
(i) the Secretary of Homeland Security to inves-
tigate thoroughly all acts of violence, intimidation, and 
domestic terrorism by White supremacists, White 
nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and associ-
ated groups in order to determine if any criminal laws 
have been violated and to prevent those groups from 
fomenting and facilitating additional violence; and 
(ii) the heads of other Federal agencies to improve 
the reporting of hate crimes and to emphasize the 
importance of the collection, and the reporting to the 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S.J. Res. 49: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 163 (2017): 
Sept. 11, considered and passed Senate. 
Sept. 12, considered and passed House. 
DAILY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS (2017): 
Sept. 14, Presidential statement. 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, of hate crime data 
by State and local agencies. 
Approved September 14, 2017. 
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