Mein Kampf, racial slurs and Antifa conspiracies lead wild first week at Charlottesville trial
It didn't take long for a landmark civil trial over the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to take a bizarre turn.
Just hours into proceedings — which are expected to last for months — neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell dropped racial slurs, made a passing reference to Adolf Hitler's Mien Kampf, floated a conspiracy theory involving Antifa and plugged his own radio show, managing to fit it all in his opening statement, according to BuzzFeed News.
Later, Richard Spencer, a self-identified white nationalist who coined the term "alt-right," was cut off multiple times by a judge, who at one point pleaded with him to "stick to the facts."
The now-infamous rally, which was held Aug. 11-12, 2017, was sparked by the planned removal of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. One woman, Heather Heyer, lost her life after a man drove his car into a counter-protest against the white nationalist gathering. Those involved in the incident, as well as a separate beating of another counter-protester, are now facing prison time.
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