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0 a jury of his peers found kyle rittenhouse not guilty on all counts. rittenhouse collapsed in the kenosha, wisconsin courtroom as the final not guilty verdict was read. rittenhouse himself took the stand in his own defense, a risky move that approved successful for the defense. in and out conversation will turn to whats going to happen next. what affect will this case have on things like vigilanteism and self-defense arguments? not to mention what happens immediately in the city of kenosha. jo...

April 2019, he released a video formally saying he would run for president. the first two words in that video were "charlottesville, virginia." president trump was of course president at the time that charlottesville happened. he famously immediately thereafter said there were fine people on both sides in charlottesville, meaning there were some fine people among the counterprotesters against the nazis that day but also fine people on the nazi side too. recovery christopher miller has been cover...

Question. that was what happened in virginia today. weird backdrop for electoral politics, weird backdrop for a big election with the eyes of the nation on it. what happened in charlottesville, virginia, in 2017, this far right rally that resulted in one woman being killed, more than a dozen seriously injured, the parading of these neo-nazi groups, the torches, chants about jews, replacement theory and all the rest of it, charlottesville is what president biden said prompted him to run for presi...

The complaint. the plaintiffs say, defendants posted imagery of the holocaust, slavery, jim crow, and fascism. they also brought with them armor, shields, and torches. the defendants say those weapons were there to defend themselves against counterprotesters and they say the speech urging violence was not to be taken seriously and was protected by the first amendment. thats what this jury, which was seated over the last three days, is going to decide. opening arguments in this trial begin tomorr...

White nationalists who organized the rally, saying they planned the attacks on counterprotesters. ken dilanian is outside the courthouse in charlottesville. ken, what can we expect when opening statements get under way tomorrow? >> reporter: geoff, this is a case about the line between speech and violence. and the question of whether people urging violence in social media and internet chat rooms can be held accountable when that violence leads to real world injuries and suffering. some of these ...

Organizers should be held accountabe for the violence that turned deadly. cbs jeff pegues is there. >> reporter: today in court, the jurors were sworn in as some of the defendants, self-proclaimed neo-nazis and white nationalists looked on. during the unite the right rally in 2017, white nationalists marched through the streets. they carried torches and clashed with counterprotesters. until a car driven by neo-nazi james fields plowed into a crowd, killing donna heinel. >> the goal of this lawsu...

Jason kessler, and more. theyve argued they were simply engaging in their first amendment right to speech and protest and that the violence is the fault of the police for not separating them from the counterprotesters. 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, people may have ...

Next tonight, two children next tonight, two children killed at a drag racing event in texas. police say a driver lost control on an airport runway northwest of san antonio yesterday, and then crashed into a crowd of fans. two boys died. they were just 6 and 8 years old. eight other people injured, including a 46-year-old woman now in critical condition. and jury selection set to begin tomorrow in the civil trial for organizers of the deadly unite the right rally. accused of conspiring to co...

White supremacists back in the headlines in charlottesville, virginia. this time theyre facing trial. jury selection starts today four years after the unite the right demonstrations in charlottesville. a civil trial that accuses dozens of organizers of those rallies for violating counterprotesters civil rights. those demonstrations, i know you remember them, brought together hundreds of right and neo-nazi protesters. plus fighting, dozens of people were hurt. one woman was killed after she was r...

Unite the right rally. white nationalists chanted anti-semitic slogans during the march which ended in violence and death. among those groups was james alex fields now serving two life sentences. he was convicted on state charges including murder and federal hate crime charges for deliberately driving his car into counterprotesters. he injured more than two dozen people and killed one, 32-year-old heather haier but some argue theres still more justice to be found. >> these people came to charlot...