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LiberalArkie

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 04:13 PM Aug 2017

Arkansas-linked Charlottesville marcher identified, apologizes to those misidentified [View all]



The Arkansas Times has identified the man photographed wearing an "Arkansas Engineering" T-shirt at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville as Andrew M. Dodson, a former student at the University of Arkansas Engineering school.

In a telephone interview with the Arkansas Times, Dodson apologized for the trouble he caused the state and, specifically, an Engineering professor at the University of Arkansas who was misidentified as the person carrying a torch at a march last Friday night. The professor became the target of social media vitriol.

“There's a couple of guys in Fayetteville that have been misidentified as me. ... It’s not those guys, it’s not them; it’s me," Dodson said. "I’m so sorry, I would never want to hurt you and your family. If they want my T-shirt back, I'll send it to them."

Dodson did not know personally the professor who was misidentified, who worked in a different branch of engineering than that studied by Dodson, but he did apologize to those with whom he studied for two years. He did not graduate from the university.

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