![]() ![]() Plaintiffs in the Charlottesville suit argue the chaos that erupted there was intentional and planned by the defendants in a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence. Some of us got to be fucking cannon fodder for the race war.” Cantwell agreed: “Not everyone’s going to be a professional propagandist, shall we say. ![]() Roof “had no future” and so was “exactly the kind of person who should be committing acts of mass murder,” said Cantwell’s guest, a guy from the neo-Nazi gossip blog The Daily Stormer. Bill HennessyĬlosing arguments set to begin in Charlottesville Unite the Right civil trialīut on the stand, Cantwell had to listen to recordings of his own podcast, including one from January 2017 – some eight months before the deadly Charlottesville rally – in which he discussed Dylann Roof, who in 2015 murdered nine people at a Black church in South Carolina. And then this happened (they showed a video of the car plowing through a crowd).Īll nine plaintiffs are in the courtroom, and all the jurors are watching the video, which showed one of the marchers hitting a man with one of the tiki torches. They marched in formation they carried shields that were later used to break thru the counter protesters, and they carried flags that were later used as weapons. The next day, Dunn said, ìThey wore riot gear. ÌTheir plans has been secretly in the works for months,î Dunn said. Then he emailed members on his listserv, ìWhat happened at the torch march was only the prequal,î he allegedly wrote ìThere was in fact much more to come,î Dunn said. ìThey screamed in their face, and they threw liquid in their face while wielding lit tiki torches.îĭunn said, ìSpencer, the most prominent white nationalist leader in the country, climbed up on the Thomas Jefferson statue and declared victory.î ÌThe white nationalists climbed the steps of the rotunda at UVA and descended upon 20-30 unarmed counter protesters,î Dunn said.ĭunn says the white nationalists encircled the protesters, ìThey maced and physically attacked the counter protesters,î Dunn said. ìThey chanted, ëyou will not replace us,í ëJews will not replace usí and ëBlood and soil,íî Dunn said. A video is played showing marchers with tiki torches, and chanting ìyou will not replace us.îĭunn says hundreds of white nationalists met up in darkness on UVAís campus. Opening statements have begun in the civil trial against the organizers of the deadly ìUnite the Rightî rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.Īttorney Karen Dunn has taken the podium on behalf of the plaintiffs, warning the court that some of the evidence is graphic and contains violent images.
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