The 'Crying Nazi' Dropped the N-Word During a White Nationalist Trial

[Jilly_in_VA]

Christopher Cantwell, a man known as “the Crying Nazi,” turned the opening statement portion of the Sines v. Kessler trial into a racist open-mic session, in which he dropped the n-word and plugged his podcast.

Cantwell and 19 other white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and their various organizations are accused of conspiring to incite racially motivated violence at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, four years ago which left one person dead and dozens injured.

They’re being sued in a massive civil case, brought by nonprofit Integrity First for America on behalf of nine survivors of that weekend,

Opening arguments for the case started Thursday with lawyers for the plaintiffs playing videos from that weekend featuring hundreds of white nationalists holding tiki torches as they marched across the University of Virginia’s campus chanting “Jews will not replace us.” The following day, Unite the Right rally goers flooded downtown Charlottesville, bringing with them shields, mace, and other weapons.

Lead attorney Karen Dunn also read aloud stomach-churning anti-semitic and racist statements made by the defendants online in the months and weeks running up to Unite the Right. “Our case is about the planning, execution and celebration of racially motivated violence,” Dunn told the jury. “Many of the defendants wanted to build a white ethnostate—a country only for white people. And that could only occur after a violent race war.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypz3j/charlottesville-unite-the-right-trial-opening-statements

[Permanut]

1. Some of the fine people.

K & R

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I would love to be on that jury.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Me, Too!

The trick might be acting impartial during jury selection!

[3825-87867]

4. Don't know if I'd EVER trust ANY jury ever again

to decide a case involving anything constitutional. Sadly, too many will lie to exonerate the wrong people.

Could any of us on DU serve "objectively and fairly" on a jury with TFG on trial?

Imagine leaving your fate up to so-called "independents!"

We've seen what that's done to this country in voting. Now imagine you're on trial with propaganda laden right wing prosecutors and right wing judges and so-called independents determining your fate.

Color me cynical.

[obamanut2012]

6. Charlottesville is known for its educated juries

For real. I have friends in the area, including one who works for a public defender, and they love it. Blue and educated.

[inthewind21]

8. Neither

of those things automatically make a good jury. It's shocking what juries do and say behind those doors of deliberation. 75% of them don't want to be there and are willing to just "get it over with" no matter how that might be. The rest, well they can be all over the map. And about 85% will judge based on some dislike of their own personal taste. As for following judges instructions, well that goes in one ear and out the other. It's rather eye opening.

[KS Toronado]

5. Anybody notice the incident was 4 years ago?

And are now just going to trial? Our justice system can be painfully slow at times, and the larger the crime
the more time it takes to bring justice. So can we cut Merrick Garland a little slack going after TFG?
We'd all like to see him behind bars right now but it isn't going to happen overnight.

[SergeStorms]

7. +100,000,000

I agree 💯%.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Exactly. And this is an easy case. . . . nt

[MissMillie]

11. Civil trial

Not about "crime," but damages.

[gratuitous]

12. Yup

And I'm confident that some of the details will surprise people who've forgotten things like Heather Heyer's death, the "Jews will not replace us" and "Blood and soil" chants. But they can tell you chapter-and-verse every time traffic was temporarily blocked during a Black Lives Matter demonstration.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

10. Wasn't Vice news founded

by the same guy who founded Proud Boys?

[radius777]

13. Yes, co-founded,

but he was a different person back then (or at least hid it well). Vice itself AFAIK has always been a respectable (though edgy and youth oriented) media outlet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media
Vice Media Group LLC is an American-Canadian digital media and broadcasting company. Developing from Vice magazine, originally based in Montreal and co-founded by Suroosh Alvi,[10] Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes,[11] Vice expanded primarily into youth and young adult–focused digital media. This included online content verticals and related web series, the news division Vice News, a film production studio, and a record label among other properties. In 2015, Vice Media was called "[arguably] a poster child for new-media success—especially when it comes to attracting a valuable millennial audience."[12] Vice re-located to New York City in 2001.

McInnes is basically a narcissistic hipster reactionary, who does things for attention, similar to Anne Coulter, who have mastered the 'art' of performative hate for profit.