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| US jurors to hear closing arguments in ‘Unite the Right’ trial |
| 2021-11-19 |
| [IsraelTimes] Jurors in the Unite the Right civil trial are set to hear closing arguments today in a lawsuit that seeks to hold white nationalists accountable for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville in 2017. Lawyers for nine people who were physically injured or emotionally scarred during the two days of chaos allege that the defendants conspired to commit racially motivated violence. Attorneys for the white nationalists say there was no conspiracy, and their use of racial epithets and blustery talk in chat rooms before the rally is protected by the First Amendment. Hundreds of white nationalists descended on Charlottesville on August 11-12, 2017, ostensibly to protest the city’s plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. During a march on the University of Virginia campus, white nationalists surrounded counterprotesters and threw burning tiki torches at them. Were they Democratic Party activists pretending to be Republicans this time, too? The following day, an avowed admirer of Adolf Hitler...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one woman and injuring dozens more. The driver of the car, James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, is serving life in prison for murder and hate crimes and lost an appeal of his conviction this week. Fields is one of 24 individuals and organizations named as defendants in the lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages and a judgment that the defendants violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights. It is being funded by Integrity First for America, a nonprofit civil rights organization. Related: Unite the Right: 2021-10-26 Trial begins for ‘far-right’ organizers of deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally Unite the Right: 2021-09-08 America's largest Confederate statue to be cut in two and sent to Goochland Women's Correctional Center: Richmond's Robert E. Lee monument comes down this morning in victory for BLM Unite the Right: 2020-07-14 Trove of Leaked FBI, Fusion Center and DHS Documents Provide Insight Into Antifa, Charlottesville, Political Bias, and the Erosion of Civil Liberties Related: Charlottesville: 2021-10-31 Lincoln Project co-founder refuses to apologize for trying to smear VA GOP gubernatorial candidat Charlottesville: 2021-10-30 ISIS plot to blow up Virginia malls: Cops increase security after warning that terror group is plotting attack just miles from nation's capitol UPDATE: Afghan refugees involved? Charlottesville: 2021-10-30 Tiki-Torch Wielding Men Target Glenn Youngkin in Disgusting Smear Attempt |
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