Good Law | Bad Law

One year after Charlottesville  . . . this is the episode to understand what to make of the terrible events that took place one year ago and where we must go from here.   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast  Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Nancy Baron-Baer, the Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League for the Philadelphia area, to look back at the Charlottesville protests from 2017 as well as to try and answer the question: “What is a hate crime?”   Nancy and Aaron discuss the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia that occurred on August 12, 2017. The protest was called “Unite the Right” and immediately sparked violent actions from both supporters of the movement and counter-protesters. Tensions peaked at 1:42 PM when James Alex Fields rammed his car into a crowd of counter protesters, killing a 19-year-old woman.   In addition to Charlottesville, Nancy and Aaron talk about the differences between hate speech, hate crimes, and hate incidences. Nancy al