danger. reporter: tunisia says despite all the national attention charlottesville got after 2017, it didn t change the systems that benefit white men. there are two systems and two sets of standards, whether that s for leaders in city government or people fighting in the streets. i probably could have literally kicked one of their asses that day. but if i put my hands on them, i m going to jail. but thinkey did it all day and to go home free. reporter: it is interesting that this civil lawsuit has been the biggest consequence for those organizers. not facing, like, criminal charges. right. reporter: what do you think about that? i knew nothing was going to happen to them. why would it? the police are on their side. i mean, we just watched the replay again on january 6th. i remember posting when the insurrection happened in the capitol, hey, d.c., charlottesville told you so. you believe us now?
prop safety on set, we will be conducting an internal review of our procedures while production is shut down. a lot of unanswered questions still, brianna. they certainly aren t answering that one. a very important one you ask. lucy, thank you for the report. a civil trial under way in charlottesville for organizers of the violent and deadly unite the right rally in 2017. and is former president trump only seeking a second term, potentially, because he is trying to avoid jail time?
this is what they did to us. they invaded us. now that it happened at the capitol, it s, oh, my goodness, they need to go to jail. we told you they needed to here. they didn t go to jail. charlottesville could have did the right thing and made such a big statement, and they didn t. charlottesville failed us. then after charlottesville failed us, our president failed us. reporter: so the defendants are expected to argue that, yeah, they re racist, but they didn t conspire to commit violence. the trial is expected to last four weeks. ellie, thank you so much. ellie reeve, withe know you ll tracking the trial. coming up, a georgia police chief is under fire for training his officers to avoid shooting vital or begorgans. he believes it can make a difference. my next guest believes it can be problematic. ahead to the transgender community,
they have tuition assistants, student loan repayment, better paid leave, wellness programs, paid time off for volunteering, ibm coverage, even pet insurance. then there is this, spanx founder signed this big, $1.2 billion deal with blackstone. you know what she did? she gave each employee two first class plane tickets to anywhere in the world and $10,000 to spend on their trip. that s more of a thank you, right? it just shows you how really the war for talent, the war for their employees is issue number one. i d work at spanx for that. where would you go? tahiti. can i get there? i don t know. i ll go straight to boston. christine romans, thank you very much. jury selection resuming this morning in charlottesville, virginia, where organizers of the 2017 unite the right rally face a civil trial. the rally was a stunning display of hate and extremist violence, as white supremacists descended on charlottesville.
in many ways, a surprise. in closed chats, they discussed what to wear, what to bring for lunch, how do you sew a swastika onto a flag. how do you attack people with common weapons? it is a racially motivated, violent conspiracy. it is not anything that s protected by the first amendment or by any other sort of right that people have. white lives matter! reporter: defendants are men who made themselves white power brands. richard spencer, chris cantwell, jeff scoop, matt hinebach, jason kessler, and more. they ve argued they were simply engaging in their first amendment right to speech and protest, and the violence is the fault of the police were not separating them from the counter-protesters. but what made the alt-right grow so quickly, the internet, has been its undoing in this case. because the defendants left behind an enormous paper trail of what they say were jokes about racial violence. with an event like charlottesville that was national news, maybe may have