The city of Orlando is mourning with Charlottesville in light of the tragedy in Virginia.
- Vigil held in downtown Orlando to remember deaths in Charlottesville
- About 200 people marched through Lake Eola Park
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Almost 200 people marched through Lake Eola Sunday night to show their support.
Through a megaphone, people could hear one organizer saying, “It is very appropriate to gather and have this community meeting and agreement that we’re not going to have hate in our city.”
Candles lit up the sky as people marched with one cause in their hearts: unity. People held signs that read: “Minority rights are human rights.”
This all comes after the violent attack in Charlottesville that killed one and injured 19 when a driver slammed a car into a group of people. Also, Troopers Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Trooper-Pilot Berke M. M. Bates died after their helicopter crashed just outside the city.
Those organizing the vigil at Lake Eola said they want to remember those who lost their lives.
“I think what’s most important in a time like this for us to come together in solidarity. It is important to remember there are more of us than there are of them,” said Mitch Emerson, the director of For Our Future. “The more we can come together and organize together and work together, the stronger we’ll be.”
Mark and Luisa Hewitt are teachers in the Seminole County area. They came from Oviedo to be part of this vigil. They are an interracial couple who believe loves stands above all.
“We can't afford to just sit down and not take action. If you fail to take action, then you're failing our country,” Luisa Hewitt said.
The Hewitts said President Donald Trump needs to come out stronger against actions of white supremacists.
“We have to come together as a nation and our leaders are really promoting this and they should,” Mark Hewitt said.
The National Policy Institute — an "independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States," according to the group's website — is working to put together an event at the University of Florida.
University president Kent Fuchs wrote in a letter that NPI reached out to them to reserve a space featuring white nationalist and alternative right activist Richard Spencer. Leaders of the Lake Eola march are working to organize a protest against that event in Gainesville.