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Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence

RICHMOND, Va. — Four years after violence erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay a total of more than $26 million in damages to people with physical or emotional injuries from the event. Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Watch: Tennessee cops let violent neo-Nazis off with warnings after they menaced a charity drag show

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Sean Kauffmann gave a stiff-arm Nazi salute as he arrived at a protest outside a drag show at a local brewpub in Cookeville, a small city about 75 miles east of Nashville, Tenn., in late January. “Law enforcement is unprepared, despite public statements that they’re planning to commit violence,” Michael German, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Prosecutor: Witness told police UVA suspect targeted victims

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A witness who saw a University of Virginia student open fire onboard a bus returning from a field trip told police the gunman targeted specific victims — many of them football players — shooting one as he slept, a prosecutor said in court …

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2 years, 7 months ago

In Buffalo, Biden To Confront The Racism He's Vowed To Fight

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — When Joe Biden talks about his decision to run against President Donald Trump in 2020, the story always starts with Charlottesville. The White House said the president and first lady will “grieve with the community that lost 10 lives in a senseless and horrific mass shooting.” Three more people were wounded. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Jury awards $26M in damages for Unite the Right violence

Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A jury ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $26 million in damages Tuesday over the violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. After a nearly monthlong civil trial, the jury in U.S. District Court deadlocked on two key claims but found the white nationalists …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'Violent hate won't go unanswered': Plaintiffs and community celebrate Charlottesville verdict

Raw Story

The decision by a Virginia jury to find the organizers of Unite the Right liable for conspiracy to commit racial, religious and ethnic harassment and violence was hailed by the legal team and the Charlottesville community today. "This case has sent a clear message: Violent hate won't go unanswered," said Amy Spitalnick, the executive director of Integrity First for America, …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Charlottesville defendants found liable for civil conspiracy and ordered to pay millions in damages

Raw Story

Returning a verdict against dozensof white supremacist leaders and organizations who organized Unite the Right, a Virginia jury has awarded more than $25 million in damages to nine plaintiffs who were injured in the violence during the chaotic rally that ended with a car attack by James Fields. While the ostensible reason for the rally was to support two Confederate …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville

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Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville Enlarge this image toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A jury in Virginia has found a group of white nationalists who organized the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., liable of engaging in a conspiracy ahead of the violent demonstration, awarding the plaintiffs …

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3 years, 1 month ago

‘Unite the Right’ trial jurors hear closings in Virginia

Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. — White nationalists “planned, executed and then celebrated” racially motivated violence that killed one counterprotester and injured dozens, lawyers for nine people hurt during the 2017 “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville said Thursday as they urged jurors to hold some of the country’s most well-known white supremacists accountable. Attorney James Kolenich, who represents Jason Kessler, the lead …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Charlottesville Nazis tripped by extremism expert after he decodes their 'doublespeak' on the witness stand

Raw Story

Plowing forward in a civil conspiracy trial against the organizers of the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally, the plaintiffs called an expert witness who methodically examined the defendants' private communications and social media posts, explaining how they exemplify the classic markers of violent white supremacist organizing. Simi and co-author Kathleen Blee, a sociology professor at the University of Pittsburgh, …

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3 years, 1 month ago

A woman recalls the deadly car attack at the Charlottesville rally organizers' trial

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A woman recalls the deadly car attack at the Charlottesville rally organizers' trial Enlarge this image toggle caption Ryan M. Kelly/AP Ryan M. Kelly/AP CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A woman who was pushed out of the way as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville described a scene of "complete terror" as she testified Monday …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'I hear it in my nightmares': Victim of neo-Nazi violence recounts Charlottesville riot in harrowing detail at trial

Raw Story

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Natalie Romero grew up in Houston, graduating from high school with honors and earning scholarships that allowed her to be the first one in her family to attend college. Testifying in a federal courtroom in Charlottesville across from disgraced alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer and jailed neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell on Friday, Romero recalled that Aug. 11, 2017 was …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Nazis' lawyers distance themselves from Chris Cantwell after he accuses Charlottesville victims of being 'Antifa'

Raw Story

Lawyers representing multiple white nationalists on Thursday rushed to distance their clients from a legal strategy being pursued by fellow white nationalist Christopher Cantwell. During opening statements at the Charlottesville civil lawsuit trial, attorney James Kolenich, who represents white nationalist Jason Kessler and Identity Evropa founder Nathan Damigo, pursued a cautious strategy in his opening statement to the jury today …

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3 years, 1 month ago

'Unite The Right' Trial Kicks Off With Focus On Organizers' Calls For Violence

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LOADING ERROR LOADING The civil trial over the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally got underway in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Thursday as lawyers for community members argued that white nationalist organizers of the event planned for and encouraged violence. The night of Aug. 11, 2017, dozens of neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched with tiki torches through the University of Virginia’s …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Unite the Right defendants are making an issue of the fact that opposing counsel is Jewish — in and out of the courtroom

Raw Story

The white supremacist organizers of the Unite the Right rally, many of them broke and at least two representing themselves, have complained that they're going up against a legal adversary with superior talent and resources in the landmark federal civil trial underway in Charlottesville, Va. Kaplan's initiative has earned her celebratory coverage in the Jewish press, including a story in …

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3 years, 1 month ago

‘Unite the Right’ rally’s planners accused in civil trial

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — The violence at the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville shocked the nation, with people beaten to the ground, lighted torches thrown at counterdemonstrators and a self-proclaimed Hitler admirer ramming his car into a crowd, killing a woman and injuring dozens more. It accuses some of the country’s most well-known white nationalists of orchestrating a …

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3 years, 1 month ago

The trial of the Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' organizers is underway

NPR

The trial of the Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' organizers is underway In Charlottesville, Va., the trial of far-right extremists associated with 2017's Unite the Right rally has begun. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Jury selection began this morning in a civil trial in Charlottesville, with two dozen defendants involved in the deadly Unite the Right rally there in the summer of 2017. …

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3 years, 2 months ago

'Calling it payback shows it's premeditated': Unite the Right organizers go on trial for planning violence

Raw Story

The orgy of fascist violence that exploded in Charlottesville, Va. during the event known as Unite the Right on Aug. 11-12, 2017 provided a shocking manifestation of the polarization, division and scapegoating projected by Donald Trump during his ascent to power. Andrew Anglin and his partner Robert "Azzmador" Ray helped promoted Unite the Right through their grotesquely racist and overtly …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Charlottesville set to remove Lee statue that sparked rally

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that became a rallying point for white supremacists and helped inspire their infamous 2017 rally in Charlottesville will be hoisted off its pedestal this weekend and sent to storage, officials announced Friday. The Lee statue and another Confederate tribute nearby are both scheduled to be removed Saturday, nearly four …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: The House takes a revealing vote on Confederate statues

CNN

Editor’s Note: Nicole Hemmer is an associate research scholar at Columbia University with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.” She co-hosts the history podcasts “Past Present” and “This Day in Esoteric Political History” and is co-producer of the new podcast “Welcome To Your Fantasy.” …

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3 years, 9 months ago

How Republican Politics (And Twitter) Created Ali Alexander, The Man Behind ‘Stop The Steal’

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High above Constitution Avenue, on a rooftop terrace, “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander gazed down at the U.S. Capitol and the chaos he’d helped unleash. On Twitter, Babbitt was in thrall to MAGA propagandists and Stop the Steal organizers such as Jack Posobiec — one of Alexander’s close friends and a prolific spreader of disinformation, including the Pizzagate sex …

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3 years, 10 months ago

'I don't really like a bully': Meet Roberta Kaplan -- the lawyer taking on Donald Trump and the far-right

Raw Story

"I don't really like a bully," says Roberta Kaplan, explaining what drove her to become a lawyer -- and is what is driving her now to sue Donald Trump and figures on the American far-right, even though it has led to multiple threats against her. Co-founder of the Time's Up movement that provides legal aid to victims of sexual assault, …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer taking on Donald Trump and the far-right

Hindustan Times

"I don't really like a bully," says Roberta Kaplan, explaining what drove her to become a lawyer - and is what is driving her now to sue Donald Trump and figures on the American far-right, even though it has led to multiple threats against her. Co-founder of the Time's Up movement that provides legal aid to victims of sexual assault, …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Years of impunity for right-wing extremists began with the Bundys and led to the failed Capitol Hill coup

Raw Story

The Raw Story went to the Bundy occupation five years ago and warned the impunity would "blaze into another firestorm." Bundy, who boasts, "I abide by almost zero federal laws," refused and after three court orders, the government began seizing his 500 cattle. The Bundys and their supporters warned the local sheriff if he didn't stop the ranchers from being …

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Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence

Watch: Tennessee cops let violent neo-Nazis off with warnings after they menaced a charity drag show

Prosecutor: Witness told police UVA suspect targeted victims

In Buffalo, Biden To Confront The Racism He's Vowed To Fight

Jury awards $26M in damages for Unite the Right violence

'Violent hate won't go unanswered': Plaintiffs and community celebrate Charlottesville verdict

Charlottesville defendants found liable for civil conspiracy and ordered to pay millions in damages

Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville

‘Unite the Right’ trial jurors hear closings in Virginia

Charlottesville Nazis tripped by extremism expert after he decodes their 'doublespeak' on the witness stand

A woman recalls the deadly car attack at the Charlottesville rally organizers' trial

'I hear it in my nightmares': Victim of neo-Nazi violence recounts Charlottesville riot in harrowing detail at trial

Nazis' lawyers distance themselves from Chris Cantwell after he accuses Charlottesville victims of being 'Antifa'

'Unite The Right' Trial Kicks Off With Focus On Organizers' Calls For Violence

Unite the Right defendants are making an issue of the fact that opposing counsel is Jewish — in and out of the courtroom

‘Unite the Right’ rally’s planners accused in civil trial

The trial of the Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' organizers is underway

'Calling it payback shows it's premeditated': Unite the Right organizers go on trial for planning violence

Charlottesville set to remove Lee statue that sparked rally

Opinion: The House takes a revealing vote on Confederate statues

How Republican Politics (And Twitter) Created Ali Alexander, The Man Behind ‘Stop The Steal’

'I don't really like a bully': Meet Roberta Kaplan -- the lawyer taking on Donald Trump and the far-right

Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer taking on Donald Trump and the far-right

Years of impunity for right-wing extremists began with the Bundys and led to the failed Capitol Hill coup