The parking garage beating lasted 10 seconds. DeAndre Harris still lives with the damage.
He remembers the taunts, the pepper spray burning his eyes, and his friend being speared with a flagpole by one of the hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis swarming Charlottesville that day. He remembers swinging a Maglite flashlight to knock away that flagpole. And what he remembers most, he said, is the instinct to run.
But DeAndre Harris, one of hundreds of counterprotesters at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, ran straight into a trap: The African American special-education aide scrambled into a downtown Charlottesville parking garage, where six men linked to militia or white-supremacist groups pummeled his 5-foot-10, 135-pound frame, all of it captured on video seen hundreds of thousands of times.
One man wore a military-style tactical helmet and a body-length shield and kicked him four times — once so hard Harris lifted into the air, and collapsed on the floor, where the same man kicked him yet again. Another smacked Harris with a wooden board while he lay crumpled on the ground.
“I kept falling,” said Harris, now 22. “I didn’t even realize I was being hit at the time. I was just trying to get up and run, but then I fell, then I got up again, then I fell. When your adrenaline is running so high, you don’t feel none of it until after the fact.”
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