“Check. Check. Check,” neo-Nazi shock jock Christopher Cantwell spoke into the courtroom microphone. Wearing a blue shirt without a tie or jacket, he proceeded to name-check Mein Kampf, drop the n-word, plug his far-right radio program, call himself “good-looking” and a “professional artist,” and blast antifascist activists all in a matter of minutes. Surprising nobody in the courtroom, Cantwell, who prepared for this moment with help from two other neo-Nazis in prison and spending evenings watching Tucker Carlson, said “I’m not a lawyer … [but] I’m the best attorney I could afford.” He added, “And I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.” It was much more a racist, stream-of-consciousness diatribe than an opening statement in the landmark civil lawsuit trial that could bankrupt Cantwell and several other white supremacists and dismantle their organizations. But that was how one of 24 organizers and participants of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville four years ago began what’s expected to be an emotionally charged trial that will last through much of November. Cantwell’s codefendants didn’t do much better. Violence at the “Unite the Right” rally on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017 — attended by hundreds of white supremacists angry over the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — turned fatal when neo-Nazi James Fields drove his Dodge Challenger through a crowd of counterprotesters. Fields killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injured dozens of others. He is serving multiple life sentences for his crimes. ​​Four other white supremacists are serving prison sentences of between two and eight years for the beating of anti-racist protester DeAndre Harris that same weekend.

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siehe auch: White Supremacists Used Racist Slurs And Cursed In Bizarre Opening Statements For The Charlottesville Trial. They contrasted greatly with the attorneys for the “Unite the Right” survivors, who carefully laid out for the jury how they plan to prove a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence.