The White Supremacists Behind The Deadly Charlottesville Rally Are Going To Court. Here's What You N

[Jilly_in_VA]

The White Supremacists Behind The Deadly Charlottesville Rally Are Going To Court. Here’s What You Need To Know.

The shockingly violent, hate-filled events of the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville scarred the American conscience: The snarling faces of hundreds of neo-Nazis and other white supremacists chanting “Jews will not replace us.” The tiki torches they carried and swastikas they flaunted as they marched through the city. The white mob standing over and beating a young Black man scrambling for his life. The gray Dodge Challenger ramming into a crowd of anti-racist activists, launching people into the air and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

And then there were the words of then-president Donald Trump, that among the white supremacist attackers there were “very fine people.”

The violence in Charlottesville not only reopened old wounds but forged an extremist path that would lead to more deadly white supremacist attacks and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The US has never fully reckoned with this painful chapter of recent history, but on Monday, a long-awaited civil trial gets underway in federal court. Victims of that violence and their legal team, as well as many other Americans, are hoping they will finally see justice served against some of the most notorious white supremacists in the country.

“This really will be the first time the entire story of Charlottesville will be told out loud,” Karen Dunn, co–lead counsel for the victims, told BuzzFeed News.

Amy Spitalnick, executive director of Integrity First for America, the civil rights nonprofit group backing the lawsuit, believes the trial will be a consequential moment for Charlottesville and the nation. She told BuzzFeed News that it will be a chance not only to hold violent white supremacists accountable but also to “prevent them from striking again ... by effectively bankrupting and dismantling these groups and their leaders.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/charlotesville-trial-unite-the-right-rally

[Yonnie3]

1. I follow this suit closely

From an unconfirmed source: Cantwell (aka the crying Nazi) likely will be removed from this trial because he's crying about being prevented from preparing his pro se defense due to his incarceration. The plaintiffs are agreeable to this change. edit: lt appears like they proposed it.

I wish the press wouldn't refer to the Unite the Right activity here as just "Charlottesville."

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!