A new documentary looks at the legal battle to make those involved with 2017’s hateful, and deadly, far-right rally face up to their involvement
f the election of Donald Trump signaled the mainstreaming of the “alt-right” in American public life, then the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, was the point made undeniable. Hundreds of avowed neo-Nazis, white supremacists, far-right militants and Klansmen walked the streets of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, bearing torches, assaulting counter-protesters, and shouting a cacophony of racist and antisemitic epithets .
The plaintiffs “were not your typical activists in many cases”, said Jacobson.
And on the other hand, the endurance test of a lawsuit this was for the nine plaintiffs, who tried to move on with their lives while the case slowly trudged along. The trial was delayed several times, first by administrative issues, then the pandemic; by the time the plaintiffs were able to take the stand, more than four years had passed. Due to pandemic restrictions, most trial scenes are re-created from transcripts and sketches, but are no less shocking.
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