You are missing a side.
Hell, you are missing 1/2 of the demonstrations.
Do you not recall that there were for civil war statues and against civil war statues demonstrators there?
Here, maybe this article might refresh your memory.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- This weekend marks one year since the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when 32-year-old counter protester Heather Heyer was killed.
Here is a timeline of events leading up to and surrounding the violence.
February 2017
The Charlottesville City Council
votes to remove a statue of Confederate war hero Robert E. Lee.
March 2017
Several groups and individuals
filed a lawsuit against the Charlottesville City Council. They said that the removal would violate the terms of the statue's donor and that it would go against laws surrounding war statues.
May 2017
A group protesting the removal of the statue gathered, carrying torches, in what was then called Robert E. Lee Park, where the statue is located.
They were met by counter-protesters.
June 2017
A plaque is removed from in front of the Robert E. Lee statue.
July 2017
Robert E. Lee Park is renamed Emancipation Park, the city's mayor announced.
Friday, August 11
2:55 p.m.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe released a statement about planned security for the "Unite the Right" white nationalist rally, which was planned in part to protest the removal of the statue. He said that participants had the right to exercise their freedom of speech, but that he found their views "abhorrent." He urged demonstrators of every view point to make alternative plans.
Friday evening
After the city of Charlottesville had lobbied for a change in venue due to the size of the event, a judge ruled that the event could remain in Emancipation Park as planned.
Hundreds of white nationalists, some wielding torches, gathered at the University of Virginia ahead of Saturday's larger rally. Their chants included phrases such as "white lives matter," "you will not replace us," and the Nazi-associated phrase "blood and soil." The mayor of Charlottesville called it a "cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance."
This weekend marks one year since the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when 32-year-old counter protester Heather Heyer was killed.
6abc.com
I draw your attention that there were both for and against the statue removal and park renaming May 2017 demonstrations. That'd be the Those'd be the 'good people'.
This was well before idiot Neo-Nazis came to the scene and it got ugly in August of that year.