The rise and humiliating fall of Chris Cantwell, Charlottesville's starring 'fascist'

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The rise and humiliating fall of Chris Cantwell, Charlottesville’s starring ‘fascist’

By Avi Selk August 19 at 12:11 PM

The white supremacists, nationalists and far-right trolls who starred in last weekend’s violent Charlottesville rallies have suffered no lack of humiliation in the days since.

Take “Millennial Matt,” whose catchphrase — “Hitler did nothing wrong!” — earned him tens of thousands of fans before he went to the rally, but his Twitter account has since been deleted, his real identity publicized, and he is now begging fans for money to flee his home town because “my life is in shambles.”

There are plenty of other examples, from the hot dog restaurant cook who lost his job to university students whose schools publicly denounced racism after they went to the march. There’s even a Twitter feed devoted to shaming the tiki-torch-lit faces of white nationalism.

But none of the marchers soared so high or crashed so hard as Chris Cantwell, who became the ivory-skinned, gun-toting star of a documentary about Charlottesville that aired Monday on HBO — and a week later is better known as the “weeping Nazi” who got banned from OkCupid.
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Avi Selk is an American-Canadian nomad. He reported for the Dallas Morning News from 2009 until December 2016, when he joined the general assignment desk.
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The VICE video:

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/charlottesville-race-and-terror-vice-news-tonight-on-hbo/59921b1d2f8d32d808bddfbc

[Yonnie3]

1. He is also a named defendant in a personal injury lawsuit from people in a car Fields hit.

Here is a link to the lawsuit. There is a list of organizations and individuals, whose actions incited Fields to injure the plaintiffs. The list is a useful directory of hate. They also list Jane and John Does. I wonder if this means a whole lot of discovery going on which will reveal the identities of the anonymous hate trolls that infest the internet.

http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wvir/documents/washington-v-fields-et-al.pdf

With at least one warrant from Charlottesville for illegal use of gases and injury by caustic agent or explosive he should be true to his former persona and brag, not cry.

It's going to get expensive Mister Cantwell. It's just the beginning.