I think Charlottesville was their first attempt.
Not their first, but yes certainly it was.
Read an article where they found one of the guys from Charlottesville. He was a Leftist bartender in San Francisco. Said most of the protesters were Leftist flown in from San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
The Left needed a bogeyman, and did not have one. So they created one in Charlottesville to blame President Trump. The bar tender believed it was okay to deceive the public because orange man was bad.