
A trial is set to begin for Jacob Joseph Dix, a participant in the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dix, along with several others, is charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters during the rally.
The trial of Dix, 29, from Clarksville, Ohio, marks the first test of a 2002 law that deems burning something to intimidate and instill fear of injury or death as a felony offense. This law was enacted following a state Supreme Court ruling that deemed a previous cross-burning statute unconstitutional.