Do you really believe the bottle was empty?
I don’t, especially after reading this quote:
This dude is advocating violence, including death, to stop speech he disagrees with.
But he was arrested for disorderly conduct. Seems like you needed to do a little more than throw an empty bottle to get arrested that day.
Do I believe that someone with the emotional control of abtwo year old happened upon an empty water bottle and threw it? Yes.
And even if I’m wrong, sentences are handed out based on what you’re convicted of, not what actually happened.
It’s also incredibly likely that I’m being overly optimistic and Virginia is going to de facto sentence people based on political beliefs.
Looks like they are digging up whatever they can.
A grand jury in surrounding Albemarle County returned a single-count indictment charging Mr. Kessler, 34, in connection with a sworn statement he made seven months before his “Unite the Right” rally this summer…
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/us/charlottesville-torch-rally/index.html
After the rally, they left the park, boarded a tour bus and departed from the city, Charlottesville police said. Police cars followed the tour bus to make sure the group was leaving the city.
"Our department is conferring with city leadership and the Commonwealth Attorney’s office to determine what legal action may be taken in response to this event," police said in a statement.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe tweeted: “We are monitoring this situation as we continue to oppose these racists and their message of hate.”
Do you think he’ll get bond? lol…
It’s sad how Cantwell put all his cards with those guys and they left him out to dry in jail.
Deandre is a VA state resident. He has that going for him. And he was just defending himself, and Corey Long, according to his lawyer.
ACLU is tweeting support for Deandre
Looks like he bought a Mercedes and a $2000 pair of Nike Air Jordan Retros.
But I would place the blame on him for triggering the garage brawl. Corey Long also get some blame for trying to steal the confederate flag. There is plenty of blame to go around.
It looks like someone told Corey Long to pull up his pants, and gave him some suspenders to make sure they stay up.
Deandre goes back for an arraignment tomorrow.
Harris was not handcuffed or placed in a cell, Merritt said. After an arraignment Friday, his next court appearance will be a preliminary hearing set for mid-December.
A bunch of alt-right guys have court dates today.
http://www.newsplex.com/content/news/Several-charged-in-Unite-the-Right-rally-due-in-court-450493123.html
Huh, who’d have thought.
Do you think they’ll report the settlement income to properly update their SSI eligibility?
http://www.c-ville.com/guilty/#.WeG1z2gpCEc
Police had to intervene after an October 13 court hearing where three white nationalists were found guilty of failure to disperse during the Unite the Right rally, and then were chased into a nearby parking garage by people waiting for them outside the courthouse.
Counterprotesters with their middle fingers in the air rushed Nathan Damigo, Evan McLaren and JonPaul Struys when they left Charlottesville General District Court. The group chanted “fuck white supremacists” and followed the men into the Market Street Garage where McLaren was parked.
Damigo—founder of white supremacist group Identity Evropa—trailed McLaren—the executive director of the National Policy Institute, which was formerly reigned by Richard Spencer—to the car while Struys turned to face the angry group, making a peace sign and pursing his lips.
About a dozen police were on-hand, and ordered everyone who wasn’t parked in the garage to leave. The three men then rode off in the silver car McLaren was driving.
In court, Virginia State Police troopers testified they arrested Damigo and Struys on August 12 after the rally had been declared an unlawful assembly and its participants were instructed to leave Emancipation Park. The two refused to leave and pushed up against the shields of a line of riot cops.
Another trooper testified that McLaren was lying face down on the ground in the park when he was arrested for failure to disperse.
All three are represented by Elmer Woodard, who also represents “Crying Nazi” Chris Cantwell and Richard Preston, who’s charged with firing a gun during the rally. The Blairs, Virginia-based attorney argued that the rally should never have been declared an unlawful assembly, so police did not have grounds to arrest the men.
He said his clients were “bellyaching,” and not participating in violence.
Brian O’Donnell, who served as a Charlottesville Police Department zone commander August 12, testified that people in attendance threw bottles, used pepper spray and beat each other with sticks and bats, and prosecutor Nina-Alice Antony said that was enough to declare the meetup unlawful.
But Woodard said all of the violence was happening on the outskirts of the permitted area, so if an unlawful assembly needed to be declared, it should have only affected those participating in violence outside of Emancipation Park. He called rally organizer Jason Kessler to testify, who said the three alt-righters in question were his guests, and they all behaved during the event.
As the homegrown white nationalist took the stand, he was greeted with hissing from courtroom attendee Nancy Carpenter.
“I didn’t see anybody making any violence,” Kessler said, and added that the drone footage of the event that he watched a few days ago was “super boring.”
Judge Robert Downer found all three men guilty of the class one misdemeanor, and fined Damigo and Struys $200. McLaren, who was “cordial” with police, was ordered to fork over $100.
The three have appealed the charges and will appear on the December docket call in Charlottesville Circuit Court, according to prosecutor Antony.
Corey Long was arrested for a couple of misdemeanors.
Charlottesville police arrested Corey Alexander Long of Culpeper on Friday, October 13, on charges stemming from the Unite the Right rally held on August 12. One charge is for assault and battery, which is in relation to an incident on East Market Street on August 12. Another charge is for disorderly conduct, which is in relation to a flame-throwing incident on the same day.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter4/section18.2-57/
§ 18.2-57. Assault and battery; penalty.
A. Any person who commits a simple assault or assault and battery is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and if the person intentionally selects the person against whom a simple assault is committed because of his race, religious conviction, color or national origin, the penalty upon conviction shall include a term of confinement of at least six months, 30 days of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of confinement.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/section18.2-415/
§ 18.2-415. Disorderly conduct in public places.
A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with the intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:
A. In any street, highway, public building, or while in or on a public conveyance, or public place engages in conduct having a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person or persons at whom, individually, such conduct is directed;
A person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
These are the plaintifs
ELIZABETH SINES, SETH WISPELWEY,
MARISSA BLAIR, TYLER MAGILL, APRIL
MUNIZ, HANNAH PEARCE, MARCUS
MARTIN, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE 1, JANE
DOE 2, and JANE DOE 3,
I wonder how much money these racists have.
JASON KESSLER, RICHARD SPENCER,
CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL, JAMES
ALEX FIELDS, JR., VANGUARD
AMERICA, ANDREW ANGLIN,
MOONBASE HOLDINGS, LLC, ROBERT
“AZZMADOR” RAY, NATHAN DAMIGO,
ELLIOT KLINE a/k/a/ ELI MOSELY,
IDENTITY EVROPA, MATTHEW
HEIMBACH, MATTHEW PARROTT a/k/a
DAVID MATTHEW PARROTT,
TRADITIONALIST WORKER PARTY,
MICHAEL HILL, MICHAEL TUBBS,
LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH, JEFF SCHOEP,
NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT,
NATIONALIST FRONT, AUGUSTUS SOL
INVICTUS, FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE
ALT-KNIGHTS, MICHAEL “ENOCH”
PEINOVICH, LOYAL WHITE KNIGHTS OF
THE KU KLUX KLAN, and EAST COAST
KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN a/k/a
EAST COAST KNIGHTS OF THE TRUE
INVISIBLE EMPIRE,
I bet you will never guess the religion of the lawyer heading up the suit. Why are stereotypes accurate so often?
In September 2005, Kaplan married her partner, lawyer and Democratic Party activist Rachel Lavine, in Toronto, Canada. The couple live in New York city with their son, Jacob.[25]
She is active in her synagogue and is co-chair of the board of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis.[26]
Kaplan and Levine? Oh, that’s a tough one! 
To be fair, they may not be religious at all…and the worst religion is statism.
I’ll take a good Shyster any day if the need arises. But I bet this is essentially politically motivated pro-bono work, since there is little chance of getting any kind of real settlement. I think only serves to really scare off future protestors.
96 pages. The lawyer hours for a defendant to respond to that filing alone could run $20k.