We've compiled out live tweets from the #UniteTheRight trial in Charlottesville into complete posts - covering court action gavel-to-gavel. Each stage of the trial captured in detail >>
Sines v. Kessler Rush Transcript – Day 1: Jury Selection unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-k…
Sines v. Kessler Rush Transcript – Day 5: Natalie Romero & Devin Willis Testimony. Willis and Romero are two of the plaintiffs suing the white supremacist organizers of #UniteTheRight - this post covers each court action in close detail unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-k…
Sines v. Kessler Rush Transcript – Day 6: Devin Willis, Samantha Froelich. Plaintiff Willis and former white supremacist organizer Froelich testified - this post covers all the legal moves that day in detail unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-k…
Sines v. Kessler Rush Transcript – Day 7: Samantha Froelich, Matt Heimbach. Defendant Matthew Heimbach (Traditionalist Worker Party leader) and Froelich (former white supremacist organizer) testified - this compiles all our live tweets from the day unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-k…
Sines v. Kessler Rush Transcript – Day 8: Matt Heimbach, Diane D’Costa, Deborah Lipstadt, Robert Ray, Eliott Kline. Gavel-to-gavel coverage, all the details from our tweets included here >>> unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-k…
The plaintiffs have called Sharon Reavis, a health and rehabilitation counseling expert
Reavis has been working in nursing and hospitals since 1966, says she worked on the second ever heart transplant to take place in the USA. Later worked as a medical case manager and a teacher
Good morning all - we are starting court for day 14 of the 'Unite the Right' trial in Charlottesville Virginia. Leading white supremacists face a major lawsuit. Check our landing page here > unicornriot.ninja/unite-the-righ…
Before the jury comes in in moments, white supremacist defendant Chris Cantwell is trying to get some evidence excluded from consideration.
You can check out our thread of live coverage from Day 13 here:
The judge is now warning the public (and press) that no audio or video may be recorded or rebroadcast - (tweets are implicitly authorized) - updates to be batched
Good morning! Court is starting for the 13th day of trial in ‘Sines v. Kessler’, the civil rights lawsuit filed by @IntegrityforUSA against Unite The Right neo-nazi rally organizers. Here starts today’s thread!
Today’s proceedings are beginning with testimony from plaintiff Marcus Martin, a survivor of the James Fields car attack. Martin lived in the Charlottesville area and came to counter-protest Unite The Right on August 12.
Martin was walking up 4th street with a crowd of people before the car attack occurred - his friend Courtney was on his side, his friend Heather was on his other side, and his fiancee Marissa Blair was walking behind him.
Court is beginning now for the 12th day of trial in the ‘Sines v. Kessler’ civil rights lawsuit filed against organizers of the neo-nazi Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville.
Plaintiff Chelsea Alvarado is beginning to testify now - Alvarado has lived in Virginia her whole life, graduated college in 2017, is in a data science masters program at UVA now. She works as a biomedical data scientist for an NIH contractor
Jessica Phillips from @IntegrityforUSA legal team is questioning Chelsea Alvarado for her direct examination - Alvarado describes going to Charlottesville on August 12, 2017 to counter-protest Unite The Right. She learned about the event less than a week beforehand, from friends.
A protest outside the residence of Judge Regina Chu demanded justice for #DaunteWright & transparency in the trial of ex-officer Kim Potter, calling on the judge to allow video & audio in the court during Potter's manslaughter trial-slated to start Nov 30. unicornriot.ninja/2021/protest-o…
Daunte Wright was 20 when he was shot to death by former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop on April 11, 2021. Body camera video released, showed Potter shooting Wright with her firearm as she was yelling "Taser!" / #Thread 🧵 unicornriot.ninja/2021/the-daunt…
Kim Potter was fired & within a few days charged with second-degree manslaughter. She was booked into jail, bonded out within a few hours, & had law enforcement acting as personal security at her barricaded home in the immediate aftermath. / #Thread 🧵
Court is starting in day 11 of the Sines v Kessler Unite The Right lawsuit trial in Charlottesville now - plaintiffs are playing a video deposition of Dillon Hopper, leader of the neo-nazi group Vanguard America. He joined & led the group after being a recruiter for the Marines
Dillon Hopper tells his deposition interviewer that Vanguard America members had a confidentiality policy where they would stay anonymous, Hopper says he never kept a list of members. He says he took over the group in April 2017