against the racially motivated violent conspiracies we saw here four years ago. one of the nine plaintiffs is liz signs who says fields car almost hit her. i ll never forget watching them attack my fellow students or the feeling of running for my life. another plaintiff is natalie. she was hit by fields car causing a skull fracture and concussion. thomas baker thought he would die and still has hip pain. marcus martin seen here in midair, his leg was broke and couldn t work for nine months. a lot of pain. a lot to cope with. what makes this case so interesting is that it brings the concept of incitement into the internet age saying an entire group of people should be expelled from the country or killed sooner or later isn t another political debate like marginal tax rates.
two months later james alex fields actually does it. why is this a civil case instead of a criminal case? in 2017 jeff sessions was leading the department of justice, and it was very clear to many people that the doj at that time was not going to pursue civil right the work with the enthusiasm ys mit deserves s private plaintiffs, what our plaintiffs can bring is a civil lawsuit and they did using the ku klux klan act, which is an 151-year-old statute to protect against the racially motivated violent conspiracies we saw here four years ago. one of the nine plaintiffs is liz signs who says fields car almost hit her. i ll never forget watching them attack my fellow students or the feeling of running for my life. another plaintiff is natalie. she was hit by fields car causing a skull fracture and concussion. thomas baker thought he would
blood and soil, a torch light march the night before, and vicious battles in the streets, the rally shocked america with its brazen racism and anti-semitism. you will not replace us. reporter: and the equivocation from then president trump poured fuel on the controversy, seemingly legitimatizing the alt-right, white supremacists, and white nationalism in america. you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. reporter: dozens were injured in street brawls. the violence culminated with a white nationalist james fields plowing his car into a crowd of counter protesters. one of them, 32-year-old paralegal heather heyer was killed. several others were injured. one of the nine plaintiffs is liz signs who says fields car almost hit her. i will never forget watching them attack my fellow students or the feeling of running for my life. reporter: another plaintiff is natalie romero. the lawsuit says she was hit by field
sides. reporter: dozens were injured in street brawls. the violence culminated with a white nationalist, james fields, plowing his car into a crowd of counter-protestors. one of them, 32-year-old paralegal heather heyer was killed. several others were injured. one of the nine plaintiffs is liz signs, who says field s car almost hit her. i will never forget watching them attack my fellow students or the feeling of running for my life. reporter: another plaintiff is natalie romero, the lawsuit says she was hit by fields s car, causing a skull fracture and a concussion. and marcus martin seen here in mid-air who said his leg was broken and he couldn t work for nine months. the lawsuit says social media posts and imagery by organizers suggested violence. discussions in their chat rooms of bringing guns, quote cracking skulls, even running over protestors. the lawsuit is replete with example after example after example of how these defendants and their co-conspirators
thrown out of it and people went running. they initially thought it was a smoke bomb pickup part of a convoy with it palestinian flags. showing a pro-israeli demonstrator getting socked in the gut after trying to get an israeli flag back from a guy who took his flag. brian: also, there was a jewish man that was attacked while walking home from synagogue on monday night during the jewish holiday. quote, i have taken this root a million times never been afraid. suddenly i saw a bunch of cars coming up and i see out of the corner of my eye waiving a palestinian flag. started speeding up and heard them chanting allah akbar and that s when i started running for my life. that was told to fox news. another example of it will anti-semitism i wonder if that comes under the hate crimes bill president biden was talking about at the white house.