One defendant compared himself to Jesus. Another yelled at a video of a protester saying, “White life is important.” The lawyer played a five-minute neo-Nazi promotional video in closing arguments. It was the wild final day in court of US District Judge Norman Moon, who oversees a groundbreaking civil trial over the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The proceedings seek millions of damages from nine plaintiffs injured during the rally. Plaintiffs’ lawyers say their goal is to financially cripple American racially discriminatory defendants and prevent things like Charlottesville from happening again. .. That weekend in August 2017,...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
