In October 2018, the FBI arrested four members of the Rise Above Movement (RAM), a US-based white supremacist fight club, over their role in the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The men — Benjamin Daley, Thomas Gillen, Michael Miselis, and Cole White — were charged with inciting a riot and conspiracy to incite a riot and faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Despite proclaiming their innocence, each of the four men pleaded guilty, including one of the group’s leaders Ben Daley, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to riot.