Richard W. Preston Jr.

Richard Preston Jr., of Maryland, was the leader of the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2018, Preston was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading no contest to discharging a firearm within one thousand feet of a school during the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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