Unite the Right marcher captured in viral photo dies by suicide before trial

[reACTIONary]

Source: Washington Post (No Paywall)

A man wielding a tiki torch with neo-Nazis and white supremacists in a photo that became one of the most haunting images of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017 killed himself on the same day that his trial for a federal drug trafficking charge was set to begin.

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, 35, died on Jan. 30 at his home in southwest Missouri when he was supposed to go to trial in Arizona on charges of trafficking fentanyl across the Mexico border. He was arrested in March 2021 for allegedly having more than 33 pounds of fentanyl pills in his vehicle, according to court records.

Read more: https://wapo.st/3Xugdhz

[Joe Cool]

1. The trash took itself out.

https://tenor.com/view/buh-bye-buh-bye-gif-bye-bye-bye-good-bye-gif-25645350

[peppertree]

6. von Nukem, nuked himself - you might even say

I bet that ever since high school, he'd say things like: "My name's von Nukem - and that's what we should do to Mexico and all these other countries full of brown people!"

I've heard other Republicans say similar things.

[AllyCat]

2. What's everyone having for dinner tonight?

[ZonkerHarris]

3. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Wuss.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Agree dead nazis are the best nazis.

[peppertree]

4. AND a drug trafficker!?

Definitely one of Trump's very fine people - like you wouldn't believe.

[Ligyron]

7. 33 pounds of that stuff?

Good grief, that's enough to supply the entire mid west for a month.

[barbtries]

14. betting it was enough

to put him away for life. so it goes.

[JudyM]

8. Adding a bit more from the article

After a former classmate outed Von Nukem as the man in a photo next to screaming demonstrator Peter Cvjetanovic, Von Nukem told the Springfield News-Leader that while he supported President Donald Trump, he was not associated with any of the far-right groups that had organized the Charlottesville rally. Von Nukem — who was born as Ted Landrum and changed his name in honor of Duke Nukem, the video game character — claimed that the Unite the Right event “was not a racist rally,” but instead “a rally to save our history.”

“I don’t mind showing solidarity with them,” Von Nukem told the newspaper days after the rally, adding how he believed White people faced disadvantages in modern culture. “If we don’t play, we will be the field trampled by the players. You have to pick your side. You have to throw your support behind the army that is fighting for you.”

[renate]

27. I was hoping it was Peter Cvjetanovic (whose name I didn't know till just now)

That guy is the face of tiki torches. Literally one mustache away from looking like Hitler.

I went looking to see what's happened to him since Charlottesville and found this interesting article; he went to the London School of Economics and agreed to be interviewed for the student newspaper in 2019. At first I thought "well, he didn't mean to become the face of the neo-Nazi movement, he's changed, that's good" and then the interviewer called him on a few things and fact-checked a few things, so... yeah, he's still pretty awful.

https://thebeaverlse.co.uk/exclusive-interview-with-peter-cvjetanovic/

[Jirel]

9. Sadly, too late.

He had already peed in the gene pool.

[Fullduplexxx]

10. But but but I was told the Fentanyl was being brought in by immigrants

[blugbox]

11. Hail to the King, baby! nt

[SouthernDem4ever]

12. Bye Duke, it wasn't nice knowin' ya

But thank you for getting rid of yourself. It saved us normal folks a lot of time and money.

[Better Days Ahoy]

19. Agree. At least he didn't take anyone else with him

Before he offed himself. Some honor in that.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. RIP to Ms. Heather Heyer.

That's all........

[FailureToCommunicate]

18. ...

[keithbvadu2]

15. All that risk for a measly $214.

[Comfortably_Numb]

16. Ain't that some shit? Now watch this drive.

[nattyice]

17. Oh well.

[Kennah]

20. Tots and Pears

[mjvpi]

21. What a selfish prick. Had a wife and 5 kids. The youngest was 6 months.

[Grins]

22. " trafficking fentanyl"? So he was...an 'illegal'?

That’s who the Reich-wing constantly blames (lookin’ at you Blackburn!)

[vercetti2021]

23. Good

Only good nazi is a dead one

[purr-rat beauty]

24. Next on FOX News....

....not this story.

moving on

[ToxMarz]

25. I would be ok if the news media skipped the suicide prevention information

at the end of reporting on dead Nazis.

[Wonder Why]

26. Thoughts and prayers for him

I thought for a second and a half

My prayers are that God sends him to where it is really warm. No, not that place, just Florida. He'll make a good statue in Tallahassee.

[louis-t]

28. What a horrible human being. On a side note

I saw a huge pickup truck today with a sticker in the back window that said "Execute..." something, I couldn't read the second line, as it was blocked by the height of the truck. I'm sure it was a MAGA truck. It was coming from an area where there is a house with MAGA signs all over the lawn, "Biden Sucks" etc. Shittiest house on the street. Their hero wants to have firing squads and mass executions so it's no surprise. A lot of these guys are driving huge trucks, weaving in and out of traffic driving 90 MPH on the freeways around here.