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Heather Heyer's mother on hate in the US: 'We're not going to hug it out. But we can listen to each other.'

Heyer was killed when a car plowed into counter-protesters after a white supremacist rally in Virginia. Her mother reflects on trying to build a global movement in her daughter’s name

Related: Heather Heyer, victim of Charlottesville car attack, was civil rights activist

Recently, someone sent Susan Bro a T-shirt and a stack of bumper stickers that read “Just be nice”. She gave the shirt to her mother, who had always told her that: be nice. Bro has no interest in being nice, and she has no interest, just now, in forgiveness. Her 32-year-old daughter, Heather Heyer, was killed seven weeks ago when a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nineteen other people were injured. The man charged with Heather’s murder was a 20-year-old from Ohio who had demonstrated that day alongside a white nationalist group and had, a former teacher recalled, a longstanding fascination with Hitler.

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