Driver charged with ramming car into protesters in Virginia denied bail

The Nazi sympathizer charged with ramming his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters, killing one and injuring 19 others, was denied bail Monday morning.

A scruffy-looking James Alex Fields Jr. wore a black-and-white striped jumpsuit with a collar for his court hearing, which he attended via video from the Ablemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

He is charged with second-degree murder for plowing his Dodge Challenger through the crowd of counter-protesters Saturday, leaving paralegal Heather Heyer, 32, dead.

The 20-year-old madman also faces three counts of malicious wounding and one count of failing to stop at the scene of a crash that resulted in a death.

A stone-faced Fields calmly answered routine questions by Judge Robert Downer, including telling the jurist “Yes sir” when asked whether he could afford an attorney.

A financial statement shown in court showed Fields earns $650 every two weeks. He said he works a job with Securitas Security Services.

Downer held Fields without bail because of his lack of ties to the Charlottesville community and assigned him an attorney.

“I have been advised that someone from the public defenders office, who we would normally assign to you, has a relative who is involved in the incident,” Downer explained. “So she will not be able to represent you.”

Fields had driven from his home in Maumee, Ohio to attend the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville against the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

He’s due back in court Aug. 25.

Outside the courthouse, two white supremacists clashed with several locals, who screamed “Nazi, go home!” before cops broke up the scuffle.