This is going after the money and assets of those who practice racism in rallies that push violence ….
In a mixed verdict, a jury awarded more than $25 million in damages Tuesday against white nationalist leaders for violence that erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally.
After a nearly monthlong civil trial, a jury in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville deadlocked on two key claims but found the white nationalists liable on four other counts in the lawsuit filed by nine people who suffered physical or emotional injuries during two days of demonstrations.
The verdict is a rebuke to the white nationalist movement, particularly for the two dozen individuals and organizations who were accused in a federal lawsuit of orchestrating violence against African Americans, Jews and others in a meticulously planned conspiracy.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs invoked a 150-year-old law passed after the Civil War to shield freed slaves from violence and protect their civil rights. Commonly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, the law contains a rarely used provision that allows private citizens to sue other citizens for civil rights violations….
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Hundreds of white nationalists descended on Charlottesville for the Unite the Right rally on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017, ostensibly to protest city plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. During a march on the University of Virginia campus, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us,” surrounded counterprotesters and threw tiki torches at them. The following day, an avowed admirer of Adolf Hitler rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one woman and injuring dozens more.
Then-President Donald Trump touched off a political firestorm when he failed to immediately denounce the white nationalists, saying there were “very fine people on both sides.”
My Name Is Jack says
Good luck with collecting.
Still,it’s a good move and should be used more often togo after Right Wing hoodlums .
Maybe the Capitol officers will go after some of the the trash that assaulted them in the Republican insurrection of Jan. 6.
jamesb says
I agree with difficulty of collecting…
But it WILL be hanging over them making any money….
jamesb says
Echoing Jack’s view on collecting money from the white nationalists….
Collecting $26M award vs. white nationalists may be tough
“I have no assets. I have no property. You can’t get blood from a stone,” one said…
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My Name Is Jack says
Usually judgments are good for a number of years .
At some point something might be collected,nowhere near this award though ,unless one of these hoodlums surprisingly owns some very valuable property which is unlikely.
jamesb says
Props Jack…
Ghost of SE says
Considering the surprising number of millionaires who actually finance far right organizations, I’d say it’s a remote but non zero possibility.