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“I just remember seeing Heather Heyer’s eyes. I thought ‘that’s what someone’s eyes look like when you’re dead'” said Jean Peterson, who was run over by James Fields during the "Unite the Right" rally. Today, prosecutors focused on the moment Fields drove his car into the crowd.
Charlottesville Police Detective Jeremy Carper said Fields' car had blood stains on it, and sunglasses + a water bottle were stuck to it. The grill + passenger side mirror fell off. Ryan Kelly, a former photographer for the @DailyProgress, said Fields didn’t hit the brakes.
@DailyProgress “It was faster than any car I’d seen go down that street,” Kelly told jurors.
@DailyProgress Prosecutor Nina Antony tried to dispel the notion that Fields had been attacked before driving into the crowd. “Is the damage there [on the back of the car] before the car goes into the crowd?” she asked Kelly.

“No,” Kelly replied.

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The Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes banned members from attending the Charlottesville rally. Now the group has named Enrique Tarrio as chairman. Here’s Tarrio, in Charlottesville.
Enrique Tarrio was the leader of the Proud Boys Miami chapter. In an interview following the rally in Charlottesville, Tarrio said: “After I saw the tiki torch thing, I was completely against it.” It didn’t stop him from attending Unite the Right the very next day.
In the photo below from the deadly Charlottesville rally, Tarrio is wearing the patch of the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (FOAK), the now defunct paramilitary wing of the Proud Boys.
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Tonight at 9pm ET, tune into your local PBS station to watch the @frontlinepbs and @ProPublica film, “Documenting Hate: New American Nazis.” We’ll be posting extra info and resources live in a thread here as it premiers. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
In the meantime, check out @ACInvestigates' deep dive into Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group organized as a series of terror cells across the US. propublica.org/article/an-ato…
"Documenting Hate: New American Nazis" is starting now. You can also stream it online here: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
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Social media postings of alleged #Pittsburgh shooter show adherence to antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through immigration - aka "white genocide."
This is also what white supremacists meant in Charlottesville when they chanted “Jews will not replace us!”
"HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people.” HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) is an American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIAS
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THREAD: at #AHA2019, I will discuss conflicts between fascists/neoconfeds and anti-racists after the fall of #SilentSam. How should academics should react when confronted with the worst of the issues we study? I argue that UNC's response amounts to collaboration with fascism. 1/
First - let’s establish the presence of fascists on the side UNC describes simply as “pro-Silent Sam.” Activists have documented the participation of several groups who marched with Nazis in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right rally in 2017. I'll list a few examples. 2/
By 8/30/18, 4 members of NC Shield Guard had RSVP'd to an event organized by neoconfederate hate group ACTBAC. 3/
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today will be the third day of witnesses in the state’s case against fields. friday’s recap is linked here.
the commonwealth is expected to rest tomorrow.
i will update you at lunch today - i even packed a thermos of delicious soup made for me by a dear friend.
the judge seems surprised that we are moving along on schedule. we heard from 5 witnesses this morning - the girlfriend of one of thursday’s witnesses who also witnessed the attack, the wife of the victim who testified thursday (a witness and friend of heather heyer’s),
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sounds like the “property owner” is jacob goodwin’s dad & the unflattering NBC story is here:
nbcnews.com/leftfield/left…
jacob goodwin was sentenced to 10 years (with 2 suspended) in august for his participation in the brutal assault on deandre harris during the unite the right rally
jacob goodwin isn't just some young man who made a mistake... here's his mother with the wife of neo-nazi billy roper at a klan event, photos tamera posted of her son (nice george lincoln rockwell shirt, dork), & a photo jacob posted the day after nearly beating a man to death.
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"James Stachowiak is a multiple felon who regularly posts online videos calling for black people to be shot on sight."

He & his comrades have also been harassing Stacey Abrams’ campaign, but please, tell us again about leftist mobs theroot.com/shoot-them-on-…
.@NYGovCuomo assigns NY State Police Hate Crimes Unit to assist NYPD in its investigation of the "Proud Boys" mob violence, calls for an FBI inquiry into the far-right attacks nytimes.com/2018/10/14/nyr…
Under pressure after video showed "Proud Boys" thugs beating several protesters and responding officers not arresting anyone, the #NYPD now plans to charge at least 9 neo-fascists and 3 leftist protesters with riot and assault buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgan…
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Watching a documentary from the early 90s about a Nazi youth recruiting center in Alabama. This scene with a local rich dude confronting the group is pretty telling.
Oh and here's their response to the declaration of silence:
HBO's Skinhead USA for reference
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In February 2017, the Charlottesville City Council voted to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee from a local park named for him & in June they voted to rename it “Emancipation Park.” nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/…
On May 13, 2017, #WhiteSupremacist Richard Spencer led a rally to protest the removal of the statue. His protesters held torches near the statue (as seen in photo used later for August #UTR) nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/…
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