Stanislaus County White Supremacist Among Group Held Legally Responsible for Charlottesville Violence

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STANISLAUS COUNTY (CBS13) — A Stanislaus County antheral is 1 of respective white-supremacist leaders ordered to wage a full of $25 cardinal successful a suit implicit the the 2017 Charlottesville protestation that turned deadly.

Nathan Damigo had made headlines for his governmental views before, including backmost successful 2016, erstwhile helium was a pupil connected the Stanislaus State campus.

CBS13 archetypal spoke to Nathan Damigo successful 2016 erstwhile helium became a arguable fig recruiting students astatine Stanislaus State to his whites-only club, Identity Europa.

He claimed past helium was not a achromatic nationalist.

“Do you condemn achromatic supremaciy speech? Do you condemn hatred speech? Do you condemn these types of ideas,” CBS13’s Steve Large had asked him.

“I mean, you would person to specify what you mean by achromatic supremacy oregon hatred speech,” Damigo said.

Damigo gained much notoriety successful 2017 aft a camera caught him punching a pistillate successful the look astatine at Berkeley protest.

Now, helium is making much headlines aft a justice ruled him partially liable successful the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally that near a pistillate dead.

A national justice is ordering Damigo to wage $500,000 for helping to signifier the rally. The justice says organizers openly discussed committing circumstantial acts of unit against counterprotesters up of the event.

Civil rights lawyer Jeffrey Kravitz says those conversations predicted what happened. A self-proclaimed Hitler protagonist drove into a crowd, sidesplitting 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.

“Prior to the lawsuit happening, they openly talked astir the existent event, the driving of a car into a radical of protesters,” Kravitz said.

Kravitz says the grounds presented successful this lawsuit did not support Damigo’s claims helium and his co-defendants were practicing state of speech.

“There is nary code to intimidate, determination is nary code to stitchery to bash violence, determination is nary code to stitchery radical unneurotic knowing they whitethorn harm somebody,” Kravitz said.

Damigo present faces a half-a-million dollar judgement against him, and the afloat unit of the national authorities capable to prehend that money.

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The Modesto Bee reports Damigo tried to state bankruptcy successful 2019 to shield his wealth from plaintiffs. A justice would not fto him.