“People with extreme views of antifa may be less inclined to believe the defendants were responsible,” an attorney for the plaintiffs said.
Alt-right demonstrators clash with counterprotesters at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017.
But when the trial opened with jury selection on Monday at the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia, there was an outsize focus on the decentralized network of antiracist, antifascist protesters who like to wear black clothing and are colloquially known as antifa. Other questions focused on jurors’ familiarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, level of concern about race relations, and their opinion on the removal of statues of Confederate leaders. Charlottesville took down its statue of Civil War General Robert E. Lee in July.
Defendant and neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell, who is without a lawyer and defending himself in the trial, told Moon that potential jurors describing “antifa” as troublemakers “is hardly an extreme view.” He argued to keep jurors who felt that way. Moon said strict pandemic guidelines would be in place during the trial, including regular testing and a mask mandate.
What Parker called the “summer of hate” — a reference to “Unite the Right” and the havoc it wreaked on the community — was “still an open wound.”
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