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Opening statements began Thursday in the civil lawsuit filed against organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia -- four years after one person died and dozens

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: do...

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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 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 law...

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...

'The violence in Charlottesville was no accident,' a civil lawsuit reads.

'The violence in Charlottesville was no accident,' a civil lawsuit reads.

'The violence in Charlottesville was no accident,' a civil lawsuit reads.

'The violence in Charlottesville was no accident,' a civil lawsuit reads.