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people who were hit by the car that killed heather heier are now plaintiffs in a lawsuit designed to go further than the individual criminal charges that were brought against individual rioters and killers among the white supremacists from that weekend. this lawsuit by the victims from charlottesville targets the leaders of white supremacist organizations and, in fact, targets the organizations, themselves, and the websites that they run, basically to try to dismantle them, hold them to account for not having just organized that white power event but specifically for having planned and organized the violence that took place at that white power event. so we ve been watching that suit by the charlottesville victims really closely. and today, as we head into this weekend s anniversary of charlottesville today a federal judge decided to hand down a little bit of an anniversary present. today a federal judge ordered sanctions against some of the primary organizers of the white power violenc
weekend. this lawsuit by the victims from charlottesville targets the leaders of white supremacist organizations. and in fact, it targets the organizations themselves and the websites that they run, basically, to try to dismantle them. to hold them to account for having not just organized that white power event, but specifically for having planned and organized the violence that took place at that white power event. so we ve been watching that suit by the charlottesville victims really closely. and today, as we head into this weekend s anniversary of charlottesville, today, a federal judge decided to hand down a little bit of an anniversary present. today, a federal judge ordered sanctions against some of the primary organizers of the white power violence that took place in charlottesville two years ago. one organization, a group called vanguard america, the guy who killed heather heyer was seen at the charlottesville riots holding a shield that had the vanguard america logo on it, tha
power violence that took place in charlottesville two years ago. one organization, a group called vanguard america, the guy who killed heather heyer was seen at the charlottesville riots holding a shield that had the vanguard america logo on it, that organization and two other white supremacist leaders who took part in organizing the violence in charlottesville, today, they were all that organization and those two people were ordered by a federal judge to pay the attorney s fees of the plaintiffs. to pay the attorneys fees of these ten victims that were injured by the violent white supremacist in charlottesville. that organization and these two white supremacist leaders are among two dozen individuals and groups who are defendants in the charlottesville lawsuit. they have been flouting court orders and ignoring the judge in this case from the very beginning. well, today, the federal judge hearing that case had had enough. saying, quote, defendants have continually failed to fulfill
for this cause. yes. we have in our reporting and in our popular understanding this idea of the lone wolf actor that is a completely false and constructed idea in the case of white power violence. what we re talking about instead is an ideological driven series of actions that are connected with one another and have deep meaning to the people carrying them out. whether or not you think that the piece of writing represents a work of intellectual is hardly the point. just like these pieces of violence are connected with one another by this movement. now, when we do this kind of lone wolf story, one of the things we miss is the way that this is a big and broad social movement. it includes men, women and children, it included people all across the country, people of