Charlottesville Racists Must Pay $2 Million in Damages

Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Seven years after deadly violence erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a federal appeals court has reinstated more than $2 million in punitive damages for white nationalist leaders and organizations implicated in physical or emotional injuries suffered by people at the event. The decision brought the total that a jury ordered to be paid to more than $26 million.

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Most of that money, $24 million, was for punitive damages, but a judge later slashed that amount to $350,000 -- to be shared by eight plaintiffs. On Monday, the Richmond-based fourth US circuit court of appeals restored more than $2 million in punitive damages, finding that each of the plaintiffs should receive $350,000, instead of the $43,750 each would have received under the lower court's ruling.

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They should have had to pay the full $24 million.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2024-07-03 08:58 AM | Reply

Very fine money from very fine people, right Donald?

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-07-03 11:09 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Our justice system is completely broken.

#3 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-07-03 12:04 PM | Reply

This is a good start. Now let's get the BLM rioters to pay back some of the $2 billion in damages they caused during the summer 2020 riots.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-03 12:57 PM | Reply

How soon before the MAGAts on the Supreme Court rule in favor of the murderous C-Ville nazis?

#5 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2024-07-03 12:59 PM | Reply

"Now let's get the BLM rioters to pay back some of the $2 billion in damages they caused"

The police are immune from that kind of civil judgment.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-07-03 01:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"Now let's get the BLM rioters to pay back some of the $2 billion in damages they caused"

And what honest percentage would you assign to anarchists and provocateurs?

#7 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-07-03 01:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Uh huh. Good luck getting blood from these turnips. This money will be paid about the same day as when Rudy G. covers the $140+MM he owes to those ladies in Georgia...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2024-07-03 01:25 PM | Reply

#4 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

It's been shown to you that right-wing extremists stirred much of that violence. Why do you CONnies have such short memories?

#9 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-07-03 01:36 PM | Reply

Re 8

And no worries. On Dictator Day all will be forgiven.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-03 01:46 PM | Reply

" It's been shown to you that right-wing extremists stirred much of that violence. Why do you CONnies have such short memories?

#9 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT AT 2024-07-03 01:36 PM | FLAG: "

Riiiiiight. Kamala Harris pimped a bail fund for right wingers. She's not the brightest bulb but she's intensely partisan and isn't dumb enough to raise fund# for her ideological foes.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-03 02:19 PM | Reply

#11 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

It's curious that only right-wing sites are parroting and exaggerating that story.

But even if it's true, does it justify the actions of your extremists? Does Kamala's bail fund give your extremists cover?

LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW POLICE KNEW FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS WERE THE REAL THREAT AT PROTESTS, NOT "ANTIFA"

#12 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-07-03 02:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Many many articles have been provided to BellRinger proving the most destructive occurrences during BLM protests were carried out by MAGA agitators.

He ignores them.

He's allergic to facts.

They conflict with his lies.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-03 02:39 PM | Reply

#11 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
It's curious that only right-wing sites are parroting and exaggerating that story.
But even if it's true, does it justify the actions of your extremists? Does Kamala's bail fund give your extremists cover?
LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW POLICE KNEW FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS WERE THE REAL THREAT AT PROTESTS, NOT "ANTIFA"

#12 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

Now watch Jeff run away.

By the way, did they ever catch the BLM supporters who burned down those buildings in Minneapolis?

WHAT?! They were white supremacist Trumpers that were later arrested and charged? ...don't tell Jeff! His little brain would exploded.

#14 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-07-03 03:22 PM | Reply

Remember Umbrella Man, the suspicious provocateur who started the fires in Minneapolis after the police murdered George Floyd? I knew you wouldn't. The police don't remember him, either.

#15 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-07-03 08:07 PM | Reply

More ethical corruption and division by the new marxist Dem party of evil. Wherever they operate they create hegemony and use lies to promote it forever. They are a threat to the world.

#16 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-05 10:58 AM | Reply

"More ethical corruption and division by the new marxist Dem party of evil."

New?

Haven't the Dems always been Communists?

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-07-05 11:04 AM | Reply

Now lets require politically biased BLM, Antifa, SPLC etc to pay back what they owe for dividing and attacking us and destroying our historic culture. Having an opinion that completely contradicts establishment deep state is not illegal, as the the now marxist establishment left wants.

#18 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-05 06:26 PM | Reply