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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 lawsuits, first and foremost, is justice for our plaintiffs and accountability for those responsible for...

Jason kessler, and more. they've 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 seen the torch march. they might have seen the car attack on the news. but if you look beneath the ...

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 commit violence. some defendants say they were exercising their first amendment rights. a 32-year-old,...

White supremacists back in the headlines in charlottesville, virginia. this time they're 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 run over by a right-wing protester. i want to bring in justice correspondent pete williams who is l...

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 there's still more justice to be found. >> these people came to charlottesville to engage in the violence and then celebrated the violence as a victory for their movie. >...