3 Alt-Right Leaders Found Guilty in Charlottesville Riots

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast




The white supremacists—Nathan Benjamin Damigo, Evan McLaren, and John Paul Struys—argued that the riot which millions of people watched on live TV was not, in fact, a riot.

Jackson Landers
JACKSON LANDERS
10.13.17 3:22 PM ET

Three participants in the deadly “Unite the Right Rally” were tried and found guilty today in Charlottesville, Virginia, for misdemeanor charges of failing to disperse after an unlawful assembly was declared by police.

The trio were represented by Elmer Woodard, the colorful attorney who is also representing Christopher Cantwell against multiple felony charges stemming from his alleged use of pepper spray against protesters at a torchlight rally the night before the deadly August 12 rally.

Woodard, with his white, Ebeneezer Scrooge-styled mutton chop whiskers, appeared before Judge Robert Downer while wearing a white late 1800’s-style waistcoat with a black collar. As he entered the courtroom, he removed a straw boater hat with a dashing red hatband.

The defendants included Nathan Benjamin Damigo, founder of the white-nationalist party Identity Evropa; Evan McLaren, executive director of Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute; and John Paul Struys.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/3-alt-right-leaders-found-guilty-in-charlottesville-riots

[Saviolo]

1. I wish the news would stop using the term "alt-right"

I know it's shorter and it's pithy and it's easy to print, but it's a marketing term designed to soften the image of a group of white supremacists, white nationalists, racists, and nazis. They could just use one of those terms, say "White Supremacists" and it would be way better.

See how nice that reads now:

3 White Supremacist Leaders Found Guilty in Charlottesville Riots

Way more accurate.

[Sam McGee]

3. It's even easier to call them . . .

Klansmen . . . or, Nazis . . . either one works.

[underpants]

2. Woodard is about as Vuhgynyuh as you can get

Old dominion racist lawyer