Browsing: DC

      It’s late afternoon, and most of the cars are pulling out of the parking lot behind a nondescript office building in Whippany, New Jersey, as I arrive. Our small group has been gathering here since March, so we know the drill. After some quick greetings, we pop our trunks and unload. There are flags, banners, signs, bungee cords, rolls of tape, noisemakers, and, most important of all, letters. A stack of black, 20-by-30-inch foam boards, each bearing a single white letter, has been carefully prearranged to spell out the day’s message.

     The man accused of killing three members of the 2022 Cavaliers football team and injuring two others on campus Sunday night (Nov. 13) in Charlottesville, Virginia, is in custody. Former UVA walk-on football player Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr. has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in commission of a felony.

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