Exclusive: Inside the courtroom as week 3 of 'Unite the Right' trial resumes
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – The week commences with the deposition testimony of Vanguard The usa leader Dillon Hopper.
He is not a defendant in the circumstance and was not present at the August 12, 2017 rally. Even so, he was ready to give background on the corporation, its players, and their connections to one an additional. Proof was also admitted pertaining to his response to Fields driving by means of a crowd of protesters.
He wrote on social media, “Commies died. That is excellent more than enough for me.” And when questioned about Heather Heyer who was killed he claimed it was “kind of like a surfer who goes into the ocean. . .he should not be shocked if he receives attacked by a shark.” Hopper viewed as all the counter-protesters to be communists.
The upcoming witness for the plaintiffs was defendant Michael Tubbs, Chief of Workers for League of the South, a group of Southern/white nationalists. Tubbs corroborated co-defendant Michael Hill’s testimony in significant element he agreed with Hill that one facet of the group’s mission was to return the South to the Jim Crow period. As for the rally, he was present and served manage his group.
Tubbs insisted his group was defending them selves from Antifa but was confronted with an e mail of him admitting he may possibly have hoped for violence and assumed there would be violence. He also mentioned of the occasion: “proudest moment of my existence on the streets of Charlottesville that working day.” Tubbs promises he was injured by counter-protesters telling the jury he was regularly struck in the head, strike by thrown objects, pepper spray.
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Marissa Blair was the future witness to testify for the plaintiffs. She was protesting when defendant Fields drove his car or truck by way of the group. She was saved from getting hit by the auto when her fiancé, plaintiff Marcus Martin, pushed her out of the way.
She was unaware of what Antifa was in the course of the rally.
Following Blair, the jury read from Vanguard America’s social media manager and spokesperson, Thomas Rousseau. Regardless of his planning and presence at the rally, he is not a defendant in this scenario.
