In the aftermath of the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a civil lawsuit was filed against w | dG1fSGNHYzNQazFPcVU
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00:00 I just heard loudness, almost like thunder.
00:04 Tiki Torches still on fire.
00:05 We're being thrown in our direction.
00:07 Voice of premises.
00:08 Bashed through our group with their shields.
00:09 I heard the sound of metal hitting bodies.
00:11 Fire the first shot at the racecourse, baby!
00:14 Robbie called me out of the blue and said,
00:18 "Do you want to sue the Nazis with me?"
00:20 I've been a litigator in New York City for more than two decades.
00:23 Charlottesville actually shocked me.
00:26 I wanted the toughest possible people to help expose that.
00:30 This was really a conspiracy.
00:32 It wasn't some sort of freak accident where this car ran into people.
00:36 There was overt planning how to prepare for violence
00:39 and make this appear as if it's self-defense.
00:42 The threat that this poses in this country,
00:45 we cannot not fight back.
00:47 We are working with victims of real trauma.
00:52 It gives me, like, cold chills to know that I'm going to have to hash out what happened.
00:57 But this is important.
00:59 We're going to speak up. We're going to resist.
01:01 We need to prove the intent was to commit violence at Unite the Right.
01:05 In order to do that, you need to elicit evidence about their views.
01:09 Do you consider yourself a white supremacist?
01:11 No, I don't.
01:12 Um...
01:13 We are talking about some of the most well-known white supremacists in America.
01:17 They almost treat it like a game, if I did say that.
01:20 Either I was lying then or I was joking.
01:22 It was kind of like litigating against teenage violent truants.
01:27 The photograph of a red hat says, "Make lynchings great again."
01:31 Did you post that?
01:32 I have no recollection of that.
01:33 I'm not sure what you're getting at.
01:34 ES locker room talk.
01:35 Stop it there. Stop.
01:37 We found a flurry of communications.
01:40 I mean, I think what we would say is, "There's bombshell after bombshell."
01:45 These views are not just hateful and racist, but they are so explicitly violent,
01:50 which is the key to our case.
01:52 This is not just about what was mid-August 2017.
01:57 This is about what will be in America for many decades to come.
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