'Crying Nazi' Banned From Virginia for 5 Years
https://splinternews.com/crying-nazi-banned-from-virginia-for-5-years-1827776742
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Crying Nazi Christopher Cantwell, 37, pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts of assault and battery for using pepper spray on counterprotesters during the Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, last year.
Counterprotester Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in the two-day protests when white terrorist James Alex Fields Jr., then 20, drove his car into a crowd, injuring dozens in addition to killing Heyer. Fields has since been indicted on 30 charges, including a federal hate crime charge.
Cantwell was sentenced to two concurrent jail terms of 12 months for a pepper spray attack on two counterprotesters on Aug. 11, 2017, at the Thomas Jefferson statue at the University of Virginia. All but seven months of that sentence were suspended, The Washington Post reported. Cantwell will serve no additional time over the incident. However, Virginia booted him from the state for at least five years, ordering him to leave within eight hours of the end of the hearing. He also was fined $250.