Hate in America: Dispatches from the Courtroom Wars
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
In Charlottesville, Virginia the civil trial against the organizers of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally continues. I’ve written previously about the start of the trial here.
This is the last week of the four-week-long trial, and the plaintiffs’ lawyers, who represent a group of people who were physically or mentally injured during two days of terror in August, 2017, are making their closing arguments.
BRUNSWICK, GA
In Brunswick, Georgia three white men, Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan are on trial for the aggravated assault and murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery, a 25-year old black man, was jogging near his home when the three white men chased him down in their pickup trucks and attacked him. Eleven out of twelve jurors are white and the four alternatives are also white.
KENOSHA, WI
In Kenosha, Wisconsin Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for shooting and killing two men, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony M. Huber, and injuring a third, Gaige Grosskreutz. Rittenhouse was just 17 at the time of the shooting, on August 25, 2020, which occurred during protests surrounding the police shooting of an African-American man named Jacob Blake.
WASHINGTON D.C.
After being charged with two counts of contempt of Congress, because of his refusal to respond to subpoenas from the January 6th Commission, President Trump’s former Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon, turned himself in at an FBI office in Washington, DC.
NEWTOWN, CT
Right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones has been the subject of multiple defamation lawsuits brought by the families of children murdered during the mass shooting in Sandy Hook in 2012.
https://www.gregpalast.com/dispatches-from-the-courtroom-wars/
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