The mother of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old killed by a white supremacist in Charlottesville, Va., told mourners at a memorial service for her daughter Wednesday that white nationalist groups tried to “kill my child to shut her up,” but ended up getting the reverse result.
“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what? You just magnified her,” Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, said during a memorial service for Heyer on Wednesday.
Heyer died Saturday when James Alex Fields Jr., 20, drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Saturday. Nineteen others were injured.
Fields was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Monday.
Mourners gathered at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville for a memorial service for Heyer.
During her remarks at the memorial service, Bro urged those in attendance to channel their anger into “righteous action.”
“Remember in your heart, if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention,” Bro said. “I want you to pay attention. Find what’s wrong, don’t ignore it, don’t look the other way. You make the point to look at it and say to yourself, ‘What can I do to make a difference?’ And that’s how you’re going to make my child’s death worthwhile.
“I’d rather have my child, but by golly, if I’ve got to give her up, we’re going to make it count,” she said.
