Verdict reached in Charlottesville Unite the Right rally trial

[BidenPresident]

Prominent white supremacists Richard Spencer, Jason Kessler and Christopher Cantwell and others engaged in a conspiracy in advance of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, a jury has ruled.

The jury then awarded $500,000 in punitive damages against all 12 individual defendants, and $1 million against five white nationalist organizations on that conspiracy count. Other damages followed on further counts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...-live-updates/

[BidenPresident]

Cantwell, who took part in that rally, became known as the “crying Nazi” after filming an emotional video about a warrant out for his arrest. Like Spencer, he represented himself, but he used the trial to defend his white supremacist views and promote his far-right podcast. He is serving a prison sentence for extortion and threat charges from a separate case.

[BidenPresident]

The defendants include some of the most notorious white supremacists and hate groups in the country.

They include Jason Kessler, the lead organizer of the Unite the Right rally; Richard Spencer, a featured speaker at the rally who coined the term “alt-right”; Matthew Heimbach, who founded a now disbanded neo-Nazi group and has ties to far-right factions in Eastern Europe; and Christopher Cantwell, who became widely known as the “crying Nazi” after an emotional video of him was posted when a warrant was issued for his arrest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...-live-updates/

[BattleofHodow]

Stalinism in action.

[BidenPresident]

Racists like Rittenhouse still face civil suits like this one.

[BattleofHodow]

Racists like Rittenhouse still face civil suits like this one.

Rittenhouse came out supporting BLM & said he was not racist.

Dlander charges on your part?

Not that I'd agree.
Anti 1st amendment BS you happen to support.

[BattleofHodow]

Slander***

[BattleofHodow]

Where are the lawsuits against BLM & ANTIFA for riot damages?

[Celticguy]

Prominent white supremacists Richard Spencer, Jason Kessler and Christopher Cantwell and others engaged in a conspiracy in advance of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, a jury has ruled.

The jury then awarded $500,000 in punitive damages against all 12 individual defendants, and $1 million against five white nationalist organizations on that conspiracy count. Other damages followed on further counts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...-live-updates/

WaPo has a paywall

conspiracy to do what ?

[BidenPresident]

WaPo has a paywall

conspiracy to do what ?

The civil trial played out in a federal courtroom in Charlottesville, where a jury was asked to determine whether the organizing of the deadly Unite the Right rally amounted to a conspiracy to engage in racially motivated violence.

And the trial has been unusual.

Defendants did not shy away from their racist beliefs, dismissed messages seeming to call for violence as hyperbolic jokes and attempted to shift the blame for the rally’s mayhem to each other, counterprotesters and police inaction.

At times, court proceedings have sounded like a far-right conspiracy podcast with slurs for racial and religious minorities, calls for an all-White ethno-state and praise of racist pseudoscience. Two defendants represented themselves without an attorney, meaning co-defendants were able to directly cross-examine each other and directly question the plaintiffs.

Defendants and their attorneys argued they came to Charlottesville with one purpose: to protest city plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The plaintiffs’ attorney Roberta Kaplan asked the jury to consider the plaintiffs’ “pain and suffering” and award damages from $7 million to $10 million for each of those hit by defendant James A. Fields Jr.'s car when he sped into a crowd of protesters, and $3 million to $5 million for each plaintiff injured in other ways that weekend.

Advocates for the plaintiffs said the lawsuit aims to bankrupt white supremacists and their groups.

Kaplan asked on Thursday asked the jury "to hold these defendants accountable for what they have done.”

“It is up to you to demonstrate loud and clear that contrary to what defendants would have you believe, none of this is funny and none of it is a joke,” Kaplan said.

[BidenPresident]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jurors on Tuesday found the main organizers of the deadly right-wing rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 liable under state law for injuries to counterprotesters, awarding more than $25 million in damages. But the jury deadlocked on federal conspiracy charges.

The case in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville was brought by nine plaintiffs, four men and five women, including four people injured in the same car attack that killed one counterprotester, 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

In addition to their physical injuries from the crash, including three concussions and a skull fracture, the plaintiffs testified that they suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, including insomnia, the inability to concentrate, flashbacks and panic attacks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/u...y-verdict.html

[Celticguy]

The civil trial played out in a federal courtroom in Charlottesville, where a jury was asked to determine whether the organizing of the deadly Unite the Right rally amounted to a conspiracy to engage in racially motivated violence.

And the trial has been unusual.

Defendants did not shy away from their racist beliefs, dismissed messages seeming to call for violence as hyperbolic jokes and attempted to shift the blame for the rally’s mayhem to each other, counterprotesters and police inaction.

At times, court proceedings have sounded like a far-right conspiracy podcast with slurs for racial and religious minorities, calls for an all-White ethno-state and praise of racist pseudoscience. Two defendants represented themselves without an attorney, meaning co-defendants were able to directly cross-examine each other and directly question the plaintiffs.

Defendants and their attorneys argued they came to Charlottesville with one purpose: to protest city plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The plaintiffs’ attorney Roberta Kaplan asked the jury to consider the plaintiffs’ “pain and suffering” and award damages from $7 million to $10 million for each of those hit by defendant James A. Fields Jr.'s car when he sped into a crowd of protesters, and $3 million to $5 million for each plaintiff injured in other ways that weekend.

Advocates for the plaintiffs said the lawsuit aims to bankrupt white supremacists and their groups.

Kaplan asked on Thursday asked the jury "to hold these defendants accountable for what they have done.”

“It is up to you to demonstrate loud and clear that contrary to what defendants would have you believe, none of this is funny and none of it is a joke,” Kaplan said.

thanks for sharing.

sounds like the defendants had pretty shitty lawyers.

[BidenPresident]

thanks for sharing.

sounds like the defendants had pretty shitty lawyers.

They were nazis. No one likes nazis.

[Mr.Badguy]

Where are the lawsuits against BLM & ANTIFA for riot damages?

Why don't you figure out where Antifa's headquarters are (lol) and confront them yourself?

[BidenPresident]

Why don't you figure out where Antifa's headquarters are (lol) and confront them yourself?

Nikodem is an asshole racist.